"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

The rotating model, which does not break any known law of physics, suggests the universe could spin around once every 500 billion years. This would be far too slowly to detect easily, but enough to ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope ...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of ...

Blue Origin’s all-female flight proves that women are now free to enjoy capitalism’s most extravagant spoils alongside rich ...

On the morning of April 21, you’ll be able to see Venus, Mercury, and Saturn low in the east — all without a telescope.

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

On Episode 156 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik welcome Dr. Phil Metzger from the University of Central ...

In the blink of an eye you can move from real-world historical figures to alien worlds in the distant future. Every genre ...

Saturday night (April 12) brings us the April full moon, which traditionally is known as the "Pink Full Moon." The Native ...

Venus, Saturn, and Mercury are full of surprises this month, and they have one more awe-striking display in store. Before ...