Scientists have made the most accurate predictions yet of the gravitational waves produced when two black holes fly past each ...

The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

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At the Guggenheim, Johnson offers an epic journey rooted in his own experience as a human cast into the world who, through ...

Calling this object a “nebula” is a bit of a misnomer, but galaxy IC 2574 does feature impressively large star-forming regions.

Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

A new institution in the harbor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, combines art and artifacts to underscore that migrant journeys are part of a universal human experience.

It might seem unfathomable, but that mind-boggling max age for the universe is far lower than the previously predicted 10 ...

The greater the cosmic-ray energy, the greater its interaction cross-section, meaning it is more likely to interact with CMB ...

A moment’s gaze into the skies through a telescope’s eyepiece might create a new astronomy buff. The opportunity awaits visitors, young and old, to a special “stargaze” Friday night at Rose-Hulman’s ...

Instead of simply sending audio to a specific speaker, Dolby Atmos encodes sound as individual objects with spatial ...

This week, an old astronomical controversy is renewed as researchers present new evidence for a hidden "Planet X" in our ...