Stellar streams are trails of stars that astronomers can study to solve mysteries about the history of our Milky Way galaxy ...

We're just scratching the surface of what the innovative collaboration between human astronomers and AI can unlock.

A team of astronomers from NASA have detected several strange and unexplained "little red dots" that are travelling through ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Ordinary matter – basically, anything other than dark matter – makes up about 15% of all matter. But half of it has long been missing. Powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from 69 locations in the ...

Astronomy is generating data faster than any single research team can process it, and the instruments responsible are only getting larger. Surveys now routinely produce catalogs measured in billions ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, physics and astronomy Prof. Vicky Kalogera brought together a team of ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these lights could be blinding us to the ...

Still making plans for Easter? Consider an astronomy-focused trip to the Maldives. The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands is welcoming astronomer and author Tom Kerss as part of its 2026 Masters of ...

Editor at Large Human beings ought to be pretty good at stargazing by now, given that we’ve been doing it since we first emerged on the savannah. What was once a naked-eye exercise has become a high ...

Cruises offer a unique opportunity for astrotourism by providing minimal light pollution, unobstructed horizon views and the ...