“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

A new study of a star undergoing the throes of a supernova death has revealed that bursts of X-radiation known as fast-X-ray ...

Nestled atop Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Lowell Observatory has been a cornerstone of astronomical discovery since 1894 — and it’s still inspiring curiosity today.

The Drake Municipal Observatory has hosted a summer lecture series for more than 100 years. Start time issues have attendees ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

The Drake Municipal Observatory has hosted a summer lecture series for more than 100 years. Start time issues have attendees ...

Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...

Most supernovae result from the dramatic collapse of massive stars, but one important type comes from a more modest origin.

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...