astronomy fans and laypeople alike held their collective breath for the chance of extraterrestrial life. As more evidence of ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

The first-ever close-up of an extragalactic star looks different than expected and might give a view of what stars look like at the end of their lives.

Telescopes that capture visible light are known as optical telescopes, and the science done with them is called optical astronomy. But there's an entire electromagnetic spectrum, of which the ...

Edwin Hubble, a renowned astronomer, revolutionized our understanding of the universe. He proved the existence of galaxies ...