Three OU astronomers today announced groundbreaking discoveries allowing scientists to understand planets outside the solar system. Professor Carole Haswell, Dr. Daniel Staab and Dr. John Barnes ...

West Virginia University researchers have helped discover the most massive neutron star to date, a breakthrough uncovered through the Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County. The neutron star, ...

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From asteroids and (interstellar) comets to black holes and the sun, 2019 has been full of amazing space science. This past year has been a fantastic one for astronomy and planetary science. On New ...

For many years, astronomers have looked forward to a coming revolution in ground-based astronomy: going from the current generation of 8-to-10 meter telescopes to the next generation of 30-meter class ...

Few things in life are unique; that word gets overused ad infinitum. But the Starmus Festival, the international science gathering that has now taken place five times, really is like no other event ...

On February 24, 1987, a spectacular signal was seen as never before. From 165,000 light-years away, the first signals from a recently destroyed star — a core-collapse supernova — arrived on Earth.

Elon Musk will soon offer broadband connectivity to the entire world, delivered through a mega-constellation of 12,000 satellites. Named Starlink and launched by Musk’s privately owned company SpaceX, ...

The Moon’s dark inner shadow during the total solar eclipse July 2, 2019, fell mostly on the open waters of the South Pacific Ocean. The only land over which the event was visible was Chile and ...