Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday.

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

The University of Virginia Alumni Association’s trust has awarded $1.5 million to 17 different projects in the UVa community ...

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe.

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years.

An asteroid spotted in late December 2024 caught astronomers’ eyes and simulations to determine possible orbits indicate the object could strike Earth in 2032, but West Virginia University researchers ...

DR. MATTEO LUISI, assistant professor of physics and director of the planetarium and observatory at Westminster College, has ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...