In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered the most unmistakable evidence yet that the powerful jets launched by ...

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

Star maps and charts are a mainstay of both amateur and professional sky observers. Whether it's on a simple seasonal map or ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

A recently discovered observatory may be the oldest in the Americas, challenging everything we knew about ancient astronomy.

Radio over fiber transports RF signals via optical fiber, enabling low-loss distribution for wireless networks, radar systems, and radio astronomy applications.

Astronomy instructor Nick Strobel is photographed in the new planetarium at Bakersfield College in this 2006 file photo. The ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...