Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Michael Aranda sits in for Hank to talk about the forces of nature that conspired to form Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest ...

Description: In 1965, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory saw their Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 (LCS-1) launched into Earth orbit. It ...

Astronomy isn't just about gazing at stars, it's about understanding the invisible forces that govern everything from ...

Dhruv Shenai speaks to students from the Institute of Astronomy about the pioneering research that hopes to deepen our ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

Objects in orbit that fall to Earth can pose a risk to life and infrastructure. Research outlines a new method to follow ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the ...