As a joke, she labelled it LGM 1 for “Little Green Men”, but the astronomers working on it did not really believe they had ...
The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...
About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.
Avi Loeb, Harvard astrophysicist and longtime proponent of the possibility that certain celestial objects could be artificial ...
The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...
California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" ...
Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth ...
The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...
New peer-reviewed research reporting strange lights in the pre-space-age sky is sparking curiosity and controversy ...
Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the ...
The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an image as sharp as, say, the Hubble telescope, you'd need a radio dish tens ...
The Heart Nebula shines 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher has captured a colorful view of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805), which is located some ...