For years, cosmologists have argued over a simple question with an awkward answer: How fast is the universe expanding right ...

Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitude ...

NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos. Researchers have now been able to study some of a supernova's progression by ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos. Researchers have now been able to study some of a supernova's progression by ...

Min Read In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight : Six planets will all be ...

A proposed five-satellite Cosmic Positioning System could measure cosmic distances directly and help address discrepancies in the Hubble constant through solar system–scale triangulation.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the STS-102 mission to the International Space Station, NASA mission specialist and Dunmore native Paul Richards will visit the Everhart Museum in ...

Water ice on Mars, bubbling gas on a distant star, a snow-covered island, and a pre-planetary nebula are featured this week. Plus, a look back at an image of Mars taken by the Dawn spacecraft during a ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, March 5 at 11 a.m. for a talk by Shany Danieli on The Path to Understanding Dark Matter: Novel Observations of Low-Mass ...

Astronomy does not belong off Earth. It belongs wherever the universe can be observed — and that necessarily includes the surface of the planet humans live on. Kelsey Johnson: Past President of the ...

Astronomers are rethinking what looks like the Milky Way’s quieter neighborhood, as new analysis of nearby gas clouds points ...