Dive into the fascinating crossroads of astronomy and astrology — where science meets symbolism, and the sky tells two very ...

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 ...

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

Researchers have made an astonishing discovery, published in The Astrophysical Journal, made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): dust particles that have managed to survive a perilous ...

The study of astronomy provides students with the opportunity to develop skills and interests in physics, engineering, chemistry, math, and computational and data science while gaining a deeper ...

Sifting through the noise of space is no easy task, even for astrophysicists. But a new grant from the National Science ...

Scientists from around the world are gathered in Maryland this week for the so-called "Super Bowl of astronomy." the 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

In a breakthrough study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have discovered a new origin for some of the fastest stars ...

to study the planet further. But two scientists at the University of Chicago — Dr. Rafael Luque, a postdoctoral scholar in the university’s department of astronomy and astrophysics, and Michael Zhang, ...

A powerful new U.S.-funded telescope on a mountain in Chile is poised to transform the study of astronomy.

On Aug. 31, 1913, Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was born in England. When he was 15, a school trip to hear a lecture on ...

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to bring about change over the past decade, research has shown. The survey ...