The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as disastrous for the field and likely to affect a generation of researchers.

The Chilean energy company AES Andes has announced plans to cancel its massive INNA project, a green energy plant that was ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star formation, and powerful winds work together with strong magnetic fields to ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have created one of the most detailed high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced, revealing how this invisible, ghostly ...

RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe co-authors paper led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory revealing new details about dark matter.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that most of the light around the Circinus galaxy's central black hole is coming from hot dust feeding it rather than the material getting blasted out.

In this field, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile stands out as one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes. Using its 66 parabolic antennas, ALMA observes the ...

The Lazuli Space Observatory from Schmidt Sciences will be larger than Hubble. The Lazuli Space Observatory from Schmidt Sciences will be larger than Hubble. is a news writer covering all things ...

PHOENIX — A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble that its backers say can be built ...