Astrology and astronomy have a shared history rooted in ancient civilizations. While astronomy uses scientific methods to ...

It’s not even that Dawud Hasan Tarleyb (who goes by Dawud Hasan) is a science nerd or anything like that. He’s not; he’s a ...

A University of Massachusetts astronomy professor is science lead on a $5 million proposal selected by NASA to develop new ...

Scientists discovered that Barnard’s Star wobbles a full 20 inches (50 cm) per second — five times Earth’s effect on the Sun ...

Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you're ...

Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard’s star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough ...

Nested morphology of gas streams confirms a mechanism that helps infant stars to grow by ingesting disk material ...

NASA announced that two space probes proposed by University of Maryland astronomers have advanced to the next round of ...

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

Scientists are studying whether future astronauts on deep-space journeys could transform compounds in asteroids into food. By Sarah Scoles Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world ...

My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions were mostly ...

Whipple Observatory set to reopen with new Science Center, expanding access to astronomy for rural communities ...