Recent astronomical studies suggest a compelling new perspective on our place in the universe: it is now believed to be 100 ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for ...

The York County Astronomical Society will have a public event Saturday, Aug. 30, at their observatory located at John Rudy ...

What is Astronomy? At its core, astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects — like stars, planets, and galaxies — and phenomena that originate beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

According to a study announcement from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the Cosmic Grapes structure “happened to be perfectly magnified by a foreground galaxy cluster through ...

The astronomy immersion provides students with the opportunity for additional study in astronomy in order to build a secondary area of expertise in support of their major or other areas of interest.

In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, Natarajan and colleagues from Harvard and Princeton identified a celestial object, known as UHZ1, as the highest (or oldest) known “red shift” X-ray ...

That appears to be changing, with adjustments to the astronomy curriculum that faculty believe will make an astronomy minor more accessible to students with a deep interest in the subject but a ...

Scientists pioneer new way to study exoplanets Radio telescope in the Netherlands captures habitats of planets outside our solar system Date: February 18, 2020 Source: New York University Summary ...