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 ...

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 ...

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

Elizabeth C. Babcock, who previously worked as president and CEO of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...

A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to ...

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...