Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

How do the characteristics of Neptune-like exoplanets, also known as exo-Neptunes, differ from each other? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as an ...

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

A Rocket Lab Electron launched the first satellites for a new Open Cosmos constellation that will use spectrum previously assigned to Rivada.

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday, May 10, ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, physics and astronomy Prof. Vicky Kalogera brought together a team of ...

SAINT-MICHEL OBSERVATORY, FRANCE–(Marketwire -07/25/12)- Cosmos Story, the first audio and visual guided journey through the universe, is now available for iPad and iPhone. Co-created by an ...

Some discoveries make you stop and stare. The Nebra Sky Disc is one of them. Unearthed in Germany, this 3,800-year-old bronze ...