Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

has been a hot topic in astronomy research in recent years. Now that we are beginning to unravel this cosmic mystery, ...

Watch for an ever-more-impressive evening display for the naked eye, binoculars and telescopes, as Venus swings closer to ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation ... has detected a new repeating fast radio ...

In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter ...

worked together to create the new Astronomy Club on campus. The student organization is open to any Loper, offering an opportunity to learn more about everything beyond Earth’s atmosphere in a ...

New research from Purdue University and ... assistant professor in Purdue’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ...

The Very Large Array is one of the largest telescopes on Earth and a remarkable achievement in science and engineering.

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

A ninth planet may exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt, a region populated by icy bodies that orbit the Sun.