Galileo Galilei, the renowned Italian astronomer and physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to science in the 16th and 17th centuries. His use of the telescope led to significant astronomical ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago have developed a framework that could yield more accurate ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and ...

Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, ...

Being slight oddities, brown dwarfs occupy a strange but useful niche in astronomy. Unlike exoplanets, which are often ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) is pleased to announce the appointment ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb renewed his criticism of the scientific establishment this week, accusing leading astronomy ...