A nova is a massive, temporary star explosion caused when a dense white dwarf star pulls material from a nearby star, setting ...

The only reason such a detailed eclipse record survives is that ancient Chinese scholars believed unusual celestial phenomena ...

A team of international researchers has uncovered fresh data on the world's earliest recorded solar eclipse using ancient Chinese texts. These findings could shed light on how the Earth's rotation has ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

Green Bank Observatory's "Quiet Zone" in West Virginia gets WiFi for the first time, after decades of restrictions to protect ...

Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Kip Thorne, came to the BYU campus to lecture about his discoveries and ...

Astronomer Michael R. Blanton will join the Carnegie Science Observatories as its 12th director, overseeing astronomical ...

Taylor Observatory and Norton Planetarium offers cosmic educational events from the Earth and beyond for all ages.

New research validates UAP phenomenon using 70-year-old astronomical photos, showing connections between nuclear weapons ...