Galileo Galilei, the renowned Italian astronomer and physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to science in the 16th and 17th centuries. His use of the telescope led to significant astronomical ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago have developed a framework that could yield more accurate ...

Working through years’ worth of data from an old observational campaign, a team of astronomers have directly imaged a new ...

Physics World is delighted to announce its Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2025, which includes research in astronomy, ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those galaxies, and the discovery is thanks to an artificial intelligence tool that was ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb renewed his criticism of the scientific establishment this week, accusing leading astronomy ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.