The Louisiana observatory that made a historic scientific breakthrough by detecting gravitational waves from black holes in ...

Something incredible just happened in our own cosmic backyard. For the first time from Earth, scientists have watched as a ...

For the first time, solar astronomers have been able to observe striations on the surface of the Sun at an unprecedented ...

An international team of astronomers led by China's Yunnan Observatories has identified a potentially habitable super-Earth ...

The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...

In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar ...

Based on the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique for the first time, the super-Earth, Kepler-725c, with 10 times the ...

The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can ...

The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers were careful in how they described celestial phenomena when reporting to the emperor. To ensure ...

New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and its nearest major galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...