Mississippi State's Department of Physics and Astronomy, along with the Astronomy Club, plans to host a special event just in ...

The world, dubbed GJ 251 c, sits 19.6 light-years from Earth and appears to be almost four times our planet’s mass — a “super ...

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

Kisten is a reminder of the profound impact student communities can have, especially when institutions make decisions that disrupt academic pathways. When physics programs are cut, it doesn’t just ...

The discovery of a new asteroid in the Earth's orbit around the sun has led to chatter that it's a second moon.

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

As the quest for extraterrestrial life gains momentum, a new era of astrobiology is on the horizon. The Extremely Large ...

The SETI Institute announced today that the California Academy of Sciences has awarded its highest honor, the Fellows Medal, ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the founding director of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C., returns ...

By analyzing the data from the HASH database, astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of nearly 1,500 planetary ...