Seismometers - equipment designed to pinpoint earthquakes - are now being used to track the thousands of pieces of human-made ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Michael Aranda sits in for Hank to talk about the forces of nature that conspired to form Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest ...

Astronomers used to rely on chance to catch a glimpse of fleeting explosions in space. A fresh approach to watching these ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.