In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst, or FRB, to the outskirts of an ancient, quiescent elliptical galaxy.

I was completely thrown for a loop. I thought I was hallucinating for a second,’ a Jewish student enrolled in the class tells ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

When Clay Chilcutt transferred to the University of Georgia, he encountered some seemingly bad luck. The astronomy class that ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...