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Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" has stirred the souls of art lovers for over a century. Now, its swirling skies may also speak ...

Alpha Centauri A, four light-years from Earth, may host a gas giant. If confirmed, no Earthlike planets orbit in the star’s habitable zone.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

This compression might just be enough to form a dense knot, which then collapsed into a black hole,” Pieter van Dokkum, a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale and a coauthor on the paper ...

Astronomy Black Holes 'This is the holy grail of theoretical physics.' Is the key to quantum gravity hiding in this new way to make black holes?

Mercer University physics and astronomy professor Matthew Marone says the sighting is not uncommon, and it's likely connected to the annual Bootid meteor shower.

Astronomer Joan Goodwin, Ph.D., is content with her life as an Astronomy and Physics professor at Rice University and an aunt to her niece, Frances. At the urging of Joan’s sister, Barbara, she ...

This has been called the golden age of astronomy, and there’s a new telescope on the block— or, more precisely, on top of a mountain in Chile. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by American ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and ...