When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...

Head out and find some bright planets in the evening this week: Mars, Jupiter, and Venus are all visible right now. Here's ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like Hubble and James Webb, don't even touch that bandwidth. And Chandra, the ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Researchers worry an “extinction-level event” is coming for space science as the Trump administration looks to slash spending ...

What is …?” is a section-wide column that explores the STEM majors at UW and explains what they are. This week, c William ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...