The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images and ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explores how binary star systems—two stars born together ...

Tracking the sources of photons is a hobby of many astrophysicists. Some types of photons are tied so closely to particular ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...