Scientists at Durham University are helping to develop a new type of camera intended to help search for life on distant ...

NSF Sponsors Science Communicators’ Conference and Launches Complementary Web Site: Eyes on the Sky Eyes on the Sky tells the story of NSF’s role in supporting ground-based astronomy and together with ...

On July 20, 1999, Space.com opened its doors to chronicle humanity's ongoing mission to understand the cosmos and explore the final frontier. A lot has happened in astronomy and spaceflight over the ...

One hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble made the first discovery of galaxies outside of our own. In 1923, Hubble found a way to view individual stars within the Andromeda Galaxy, which is 2.537 million ...

The University of Arizona’s oldest telescope officially turns 80 tomorrow. But far from being a museum piece, the 36-inch telescope now has a new telescope building, “so that in the distant future, ...

University of Wyoming President Ed Seidel will deliver the Department of Physics and Astronomy’s fall 2025 Rebka-Hafele-Einstein Distinguished Lecture Friday, Nov. 7.

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun tracking the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the early 1500s. The analysis contributes to challenging the “lone ...

For a quarter of a century, the European Space Agency’s Cluster mission has been a silent sentinel, navigating the cosmic ...