Researchers at Durham University have produced a new model based on the conditions created by the acceleration of the ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

Get ready to witness some celestial activity as meteor showers peak *this weekend. The Leonid Meteor Shower will be at its ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

One of my great joys as an astronomer is sharing the night sky with people. There is something wondrous about helping people ...

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks spacecraft, confirmed that the satellite's reentry path tracked "over Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

The bright object was likely a Starlink satellite burning up in Earth's atmosphere as it fell back toward our planet.

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...