NASA’s decision to shut down a $1 billion infrared space telescope, even as it continued to send back spectacular images, was ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa and elsewhere have observed the Taurus star-forming region, which ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

You can tune in to see live views of the Geminid meteor shower as it peaks overnight on Dec. 13-14, thanks to a free ...

A predictive space weather model developed by APL and partners that is designed to simulate how solar storms affect Earth is ...

Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Dec. 13 with free admission and a special exhibit on its history.

If you feel a thrill every time we discover something new about the cosmos, then November 25th may have been a noteworthy day ...

Allen Telescope Array campaign shows slow changes in radio scintillation that can nudge pulsar timing by billionths of a ...

Subjects including linguistics, international studies and human-centered design and engineering all halted taking ...