Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend over California when the Milky Way appears in the night sky.

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a ...

University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy last week officially began the decommissioning process for the UH-owned UKIRT ...

SpaceX early Saturday launched another 27 Starlink satellites, breaking it's own record by preparing the launchpad for ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of (SBMNH), on June 25, hosted a First Look event in partnership with Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), ...

The supermassive black hole only reveals itself once every tens of thousands of years. It has gone rogue and is on a killing ...

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Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

SpaceX’s next mission as part of its Transporter small payload rideshare program, Transporter 14, launched from Space Launch ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy.