The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

Can one witness a new world being born, sculpting its stellar cradle as it emerges out of cosmic dust? In the spinning protoplanetary disc around HD 135344B, 440 light-years away from Earth, ...

S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

This is the earliest glimpse we’ve ever had of a planetary system being born, a peek into what our Solar System might have ...

Astronomers just caught a celestial sneak peek at how solar systems are born, and it starts with something delightfully small ...

Astronomers continue to track Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third-ever discovered interstellar object, passing through our solar system ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

A proposed Buc-ee's location in Colorado has been met with fierce backlash from locals. Here's why. A 600-year-old Chaucer mystery may finally be solved ...