Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

The event produces some of the year’s fastest meteors, although the nearly full moon may make them challenging to spot.

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

The new members bring expanded expertise in ethics, space communication, animal intelligence, extraterrestrial materials and ...

The UM School of Theatre and Dance is producing "Silent Sky," based on an astronomer whose analyses at the Harvard ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — After over a decade of planning, Lowell Observatory’s new state-of-the-art discovery center is opening its doors this Saturday. Workers are buzzing with anticipation and ...

Researchers are developing atomically precise memristors for advanced neuromorphic computing systems. The University of ...

Brown University physics Prof. Stephon Alexander spoke on how the analysis of musical elements can help astrophysicists ...