Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

Astronomers have finally traced a strange class of radio signals—long a cosmic mystery—to a binary star system made up of a ...

As well as some of the darkest skies on the U.S. East Coast, it's also the nation's southernmost point. At 24.5 degrees north ...

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Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...

Patrick Schwarzenegger may be a "nepo baby," but "The White Lotus" star says he's earned his showbiz stripes. The 31-year-old actor, son of "Terminator" star Arnold Schwarzenegger and former NBC ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study ...

Astronomers have discovered that a pair of stars—one white dwarf and one red dwarf—are sending out radio pulses every two ...