When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be violent and chaotic. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars explode. Astronomers have obtained images of two stellar explosions, called ...

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Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

Caption: Shandin Pete, a Salish and Diné hydrogeologist and assistant professor in science education at the University of British Columbia, researches Indigenous astronomy, with a special interest in ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest Earth flyby tonight at 1 a.m. EST, NASA confirms. Learn when and how to watch ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

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