Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...

Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

More than 4,000 years after the stones of Stonehenge were erected on what today is Salisbury Plain in the U.K., astronomers and archaeologists are still investigating its connections to the sky above.

A scientist has detailed the somewhat terrifying reality of what would someone would see or feel if they fell into a black ...

The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will become fully established in Britain and be used by mosques.

Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

More Sloan fellows are affiliated with UC than with any other institution granted the awards this year, and UC leads all ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the most massive and unusual structures in the ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein and first detected by LIGO in 2015, confirming black hole ...