As the annual Perseid meteor shower approaches its dazzling peak, skywatchers might have to work a little harder to spot the show this year.

Every August, the Perseid meteor shower draws millions of eyes to the night sky. This year’s peak, set for the night of ...

From 400 kilometers above the planet’s surface, NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a rare long-exposure photograph taken ...

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...

Astronomers have used a new method to weigh the ultramassive black hole. They hope this will help them better understand how ...

On August 11, 2025, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb sparked global intrigue by proposing that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Chile, may be ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas ...

For decades, astrochemists have been looking for sulfur atoms in space and finding surprisingly little of the element that is ...

Hubble telescope captures third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS showing active dust coma racing through solar system.

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...

The Headlands International Dark Sky Park was recognized by DarkSky International in 2011, making it one of the first 10 ...

A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them ...