"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told reporters on Monday (Jan. 13) at the 245th meeting of the American ...

Space advertising is not currently a problem, but the enterprise needs to be smothered before it has a chance to grow, according to a group of concerned astronomers.

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

The American Astronomical Society says the April 8 total eclipse of the sun will be "hauntingly beautiful" and "one of the most spectacular sights in all of nature." But it's your own sight that ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) honored four scientists affiliated with UC Santa Cruz for outstanding contributions to the field. At this week's AAS national meeting, the society named UC ...

Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

Now, at a conference of the American Astronomical Society being held this week in Maryland, astronomers say they combed through public data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to collect ...

Kaila Nathaniel, a Ph.D. student in the astrophysical sciences and technology program, presented “Adding stars to the McFACTS AGN compact binary formation model” at the 245th American Astronomical ...

He received the 2023 Popular Media Award from the American Astronomical Society’s Solar Physics Division and is the author of A The rise of the "Snow Moon" today sets in motion a lunar orbit ...