After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has quietly crossed a threshold that turns a long‑planned mission into a near‑term ...

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while launching more missions and increasing the total science return. If ESCAPADE ...

Texas Tech assistant professor Elias Aydi led an international team of astronomers in publishing new findings on how stellar explosions, called novae, unfold. Using a high-resolution imaging technique ...

Astrophotography has shifted from a niche pursuit to a mainstream hobby, and the telescope you choose now matters as much as ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Kip Thorne, came to the BYU campus to lecture about his discoveries and ...

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

A full moon at its closest point to Earth: December opens this week with a full moon, dubbed the “Cold Moon,” that also ...

There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the December night skies. These long nights are ...

Jim Foerch doesn’t go by his full name when he’s working at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. His name tag says “Mr. Jim,” which is what everyone calls him as they take in ...