Life. But how would we know it? The world of astronomy is abuzz with excitement. Have we discovered the first-ever evidence of off-world life? Is the signal extracted from the interstellar noise a ...

Together, they make up what scientists call the cosmic distance ladder; as astronomers look farther out, each method is anchored to a reference point established by the previous method.

That makes it important for our safety. For amateur astronomers, however, it’s important because it allows us to see fainter celestial objects. During dark adaptation, the eyes increase their ...

Because it's comparatively near the Earth, Eos presents astronomers with a special chance to investigate the early and late phases of molecular cloud life at close proximity. Although presently no ...

Researchers at the ... Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million light-years away, within the inky black depths between ...

Well, that kind of thinking won't get you a Ph.D. in astronomy! Seriously, though, the line between galaxy and star cluster isn't always clear. Case in point, UMa3/U1. It's easy to distinguish ...

I’m by no means a scientist (let’s be real—I’m far from it). But an introductory astronomy class in college did spark my curiosity, and raise some questions, about the marvels of the ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? May holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky. Check out the list below. The May full moon, known as the Flower Moon ...

Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of asteroid 2024 YR4, which became infamous earlier in 2025 when astronomers calculated a slight chance of it impacting ...

The world of astronomy is abuzz with excitement. Have we discovered the first-ever evidence of off-world life? Is the signal extracted from the interstellar noise a telltale of active biology?

The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the ... Astronomers Find Earth-Like Exoplanets Common Across the Cosmos Apr. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered ...

When dark energy was first discovered, it was, to put it mildly, a surprise. In the late 1990s, astronomers discovered that the expansion of the universe, initially set off by the big bang ...