This week, we examine strength from different perspectives. The energetic strength of a solar flare and its effect on Earth. The gravitational strength of dark matter in our universe and its ...

Officials canceled an energy project that put one of the world’s darkest astronomy sites at risk of increased light pollution and vibration.

By Hashima Hasan How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist ...

A burst of X-rays from 8 billion years ago may be the first clear evidence of a white dwarf torn apart by a black hole.

Plans for several new military telescopes atop the mountain are drawing strong opposition. But protests over other Maui ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

Very Large Telescope observations of a free-floating rogue planet shows that it is "eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second," according to the European ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams ...

Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...

The Francis Marion University Observatory welcomed 25 attendees on Feb. 13 for a public stargazing event featuring views of Saturn, Jupiter and several celestial objects. The event ran from 6:30 p.m.

Want to delve into the mysteries of space and time? Carnegie Science Observatories walks the public through both with the launch of its 24th Season of free lect ...

Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned recycled materials into a backyard radio telescope capable of detecting the ...