Two astronomy facts about July may go against your impressions. First, the days are getting shorter, albeit slowly for now. As July begins, we have lost four minutes from the ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass.

There’s a magical place along Lake Michigan’s western shore where the horizon stretches endlessly blue and time seems to slow to the gentle rhythm of lapping waves—Harrington Beach State Park in ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the federal Department of Health and Human Services, charging that recent decisions ...

July’s rare meteor shower combo of Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids lights the sky with Milky Way ...

That’s exactly what unfolded in a project led by Dr. Veselin Kostov of the SETI Institute and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

Months after arriving in orbit thanks to a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA’s newest space ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...