They found that this cluster harbors two stellar populations ... A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the formation and dynamical ...

A supermoon rising over the horizon. They’re examples of our fascination with astronomy. At the University of Nebraska at Kearney, two students are building a community for anyone interested in ...

Come join us for a day of "Physics Phun" at the Physics & Astronomy Department Biennial Open House! The open house is free and open to anyone. Activities and talks will be geared toward a wide range ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside the discovery ...

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

Carol Lee Lutsinger has taught and written about the stars for decades, and now she's something of a star herself. Lutsinger, who in 2020 retired from the Brownsville Independent School District after ...

The BibTeX entry for the paper is: If you benefited from participating in our community, we ask that you please acknowledge the Nuclear Multi-Messenger Astronomy collaboration, and particular ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

A Zinc decay was to blame for cable failures at the Arecibo Observatory, which held the title of "world's largest radio ...

Scientists have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a dead star 4,000 light years from here, giving us a humbling glimpse into Earth's likely fate.Published in Nature Astronomy, the planet, ...

with the above title, was delivered at Oxford on May 12 by Dr. F. Zwicky, of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. The lecture covers such a wide range in astronomy that only the more ...