In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

NASA and other world-leading space agencies are putting the most powerful eyes in the night sky on asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly discovered threat to Earth.

When we join him next month, King will be freshly arrived from Norway, where he’s leading a Roads Scholar trip to see the Northern Lights. Minnesota Night Skies will be a monthly podcast for the ...

Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we don't know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical ...

Scientists will point the world’s most powerful telescope at the asteroid 2024 YR4, in the hope of understanding whether it ...

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

You won’t need a telescope for this one.Our solar system’s planets are set to align in a seven-strong planetary ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

Meta Brain & AI Research Team Head Jean-Rémi King says that the research isn’t geared towards making a marketable device.