A new study has challenged a popular explanation for the unexpected 30-second shortening of Dimorphos's orbital period. The ...

Water is the universal yardstick of comet science, the baseline for measuring how sunlight drives a comet's activity and ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

"There is a timely and critical need to develop predictive tools capable of assessing and optimizing team composition, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has dramatically transformed the field of astronomy since its launch, precipitating groundbreaking discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of the ...

UC Riverside has developed a technology that enables scientists to peer deeper into the universe. Gravitational-wave science ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

Professor Martin McCoustra from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, who took part in the study published in the Astronomy ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...