A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on our planet, explore the wonders of our star's domain, or venture into the ...

Work till you drop? Here's why America's average retirement age keeps rising.

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.

A couple months back, astronomers officially confirmed the existence of “Betelbuddy,” Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title ...

Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...

The Lisska Center for Intellectual Engagement will host a roundtable discussion on time travel at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 5.

Potentially the largest and brightest supermoon of 2025 will rise in early November. Here's how to view it in Illinois.

Sacramento State’s planetarium coordinator Kyle Watters shares how he developed a passion for astronomy and what audiences can expect during the upcoming planetarium shows on Oct. 24-26.

Metallicity is a fundamental part of the Universe. The Big Bang created mostly hydrogen, the simplest and lightest element, ...