In an exciting new study published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers have unveiled unexpected findings from the XRISM ...

They rely on detailed and precise images of distant space to better understand our universe.Already, many of those images ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...

Recent research challenges the prevailing theory that hot Jupiters (gas giants orbiting close to their stars) form through a disruptive process that prevents the existence of smaller planets in the ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

A mysterious and intensely fierce environment resides in the centers of galaxies. Objects orbiting the galactic centers are always subject to falling into the trap of the accretion disks or event ...

A long-exposure image of the Orion Nebula with a total exposure time of 208 minutes showing satellite trails in mid-December 2019. Credit: A. H. Abolfath/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA WASHINGTON — Legislation ...

Newtons breakthroughs were not born from instant inspiration but from years of meticulous observation, calculation, ...