BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully achieved the first direct mass measurement of a free-floating object, confirming that it is a planet with a mass comparable to that of Saturn. This key ...

An amateur photographer in Portland captures rare images of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS using a smart telescope as the ...

For two decades, astronomers have chased a cosmic ghost: ultra‑massive “monster stars” that theory said must have existed but ...

Humanity’s next great expansion is no longer a thought experiment. It is unfolding in real time in orbit, around the Moon and ...

Scientists outline the scientific and technical case for building a northern-hemisphere 30-meter telescope at La Palma to support time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy.

Three supermoons will lighten up the night skies in 2026, the stunning result when a full moon inches closer to Earth than ...

The National Weather Service expects a storm to hit Mount Hamilton on Friday night and bring 2 to 2 1/2 inches of rain to the ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Public libraries and tribal colleges will be able to lend out telescopes in communities across Montana thanks to a $250,000 award from NASA to a UM program.

A UK-based research project, TomoGrav, will produce the first 3D movies of black holes, mapping plasma flows and gravity in real time using advanced AI and global telescope networks.

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...