Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...

In 2017, astronomers made an unprecedented discovery: the first interstellar object ever confirmed to visit our solar ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology, told Space.com. "NASA always has a ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah (UoS) organised a ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

A new generation of stargazers are exploring how their ancestors used the night sky to thrive and survive in the Australian landscape.

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

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