The brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help reveal what celestial source causes the mysterious signals and if ...

The race for space internet is colliding with humanity’s oldest science.

The discussion underscored how citizen scientists, by contributing thousands of data points from around the world, are ...

As the next-generation observatory moves closer to its 2027 launch, engineers successfully deployed the mission-critical solar panels and a massive sunshade that will help it peer into the universe’s ...

The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's ...

Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered ...

The Universe has long fascinated humanity, inspiring questions about its origins and the delicate balance that allows life to ...

Astronomers find a new moon orbiting Uranus, boosting its known satellites to 29 using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Sporting the world’s largest digital camera, the new telescope is poised to help solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

From rainbows made indoors to lasers dancing across mirrors, these light experiments transform simple science into ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...