Scientists at the LIGO Hanford Observatory have made a groundbreaking discovery by observing the largest black hole merger ever recorded through gravitational waves.

Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia erupted shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake in the same region. Klyuchevskoy volcano in eastern Russia began erupting shortly after a powerful 8.8 ...

The mysterious cosmic explosion has been traced to a massive stellar explosion. A global team of astrophysicists, led by researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Leicester ...

An international team of astronomers has captured one of the most detailed images yet of a spectacular, ribbon-like jet ...

What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

The expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation, which promises to bring faster internet to remote corners of the ...

In an ambitious leap forward for radio astronomy, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (LuSEE-Night) is preparing to ...

Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...

For Harold Kozak, one of life’s greatest pleasures is the opportunity to educate the public about the stars and the vast ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.