Two men hope to turn much of eastern Ontario into a dark-sky preserve and they're inviting others to help save the starry skies.

Dr Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, one of India’s most respected astrophysicists and a tireless science communicator, passed away in ...

In the past, women were often underappreciated for their contributions to science and technology, including early women ...

Scientists using the XRISM satellite have uncovered a major clue to one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries: why galaxy ...

A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

Last month, astronomers claimed to have found the strongest evidence ever of alien life on a distant exoplanet named K2-18 b.

The satellite population in low Earth orbit (LEO) is not an open book. While data on many satellites is public, others are ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each ...

An international team of astronomers have detected an invisible, mysterious, nearly perfectly spherical object emitting radio ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...