Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's ...

“If history is any guide, then perhaps the first signatures of extraterrestrial intelligence will too be highly atypical, ‘loud’ examples of their broader class.” In that line from The Eschatian ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique ...

UofL to permanently close planetarium after years of uncertainty ...

An oddly-behaving star led two UW astronomers to capture rare evidence of a collision between two planets in a distant solar ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by ...

As a space scientist, every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our ...

Andy Bucks, 32, and based at Warwick University in Coventry came top of the list with his gag 'I looked up the word singular in the dictionary, and that can mean only one thing’. Bucks, who performed ...

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology.

We've heard a lot about the red moon lately, but what exactly is it? What makes the moon red?