Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

"Understanding these weather processes will be crucial as we continue to discover and characterize exoworlds in the future." ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

Rising around midnight and nearly 50° high in the south two hours before sunrise is Orion the Hunter, one of autumn's premier constellations. As the season progresses, Orion will rise earlier and ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Look Up! Join the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, Inc. to celebrate National Astronomy Day and the 35th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with an evening observation session ...

Unraveling the cosmic symphony of gravitational waves, from the 'Music of the Spheres' to moon-based detectors.

Monday is the first day of Fall for us in the northern hemisphere. It is the first day where there will be more darkness than ...

Lovers of the stars, sky and space have had the option to study astronomy on the curriculum since September 2017, when ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...