Researchers have discovered an extraordinarily aligned gravitational lens system, dubbed the Carousel Lens, that involves a ...

Luca Ellcessor, a freshman at the University of Colorado Boulder, is using his wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help ...

"We found an overdensity of planets in this region, indicating a sharp transition between the barren Neptunian Desert and the more populated Neptunian Savanna." ...

Jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation, the highly competitive grant will establish the ...

Jane Greaves, an astronomy professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University in Wales, was examining continent formation on distant stars and planets. It is thought that ...

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...

Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about ...

Gravitational lenses bend and focus light from the more distant cosmos, offering astronomers a cheat code for chronicling the ...

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

The fall season officially begins on the calendar this Sunday, with the autumn equinox. For those of us in the northern ...