A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.

In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...

The next Milky Way supernova may not surprise astronomers at all. According to a recent study available on the arXiv preprint server, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ahead of its decade-long Legacy ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

Learn more about the Chankillo site, an ancient astronomical observatory that may offer new insights into how our ancestors ...

Ferris State University physics and astronomy professor Dinesh Shetty and student Francisco Vasquez have reached a milestone ...

The satellites in Amazon's new internet-beaming megaconstellation in low Earth orbit are bright enough to disrupt ...

The Very Large Array, located in New Mexico, is part of facility of the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory. (Bettymaya Foott, NRAO/AUI/NSF; available under Creative ...

A 3,000-light-year cosmic jet erupts from M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, offering a rare view of black hole activity from the galaxy Messier 87 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the first and largest astronomical observatory from 6th century BC — located in Kafr Sheikh, Egypt. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities shared the remarkable ...

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, celebrated the grand opening of the Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center (ADC), a 40,000-square-foot facility featuring interactive exhibits, a ...