When I recommend telescopes, I ask three questions,” says Katherine Troche, president of the Amateur Astronomers Association.

Newton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 ...

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In the paper from 2024, the team looked at long-period objects that crossed the path of Neptune's orbit, finding that their ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the violent surfaces of collapsed stars: they recreated a thermonuclear reaction ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — and the view is stunning, ...

Credit: Kamalika Chakraborty A bizarre pair of planets 190 light-years away is forcing astronomers to rethink how planetary ...

The central region of Messier 77 is dominated by an extremely compact and energetic ...

While the beautiful lawn outside Griffith Observatory is notably large, it could not hold all of the planets and stars in the universe, not even if we huffed and squeezed and pushed and crowded ...

Massive star clusters may have blasted enough ultraviolet radiation into space to transform the early universe, new research ...