A new lecture series at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will honor one of the most influential figures in the city’s astronomy history while bringing a distinguished alumnus back to the ...

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more than doubling the entire catalog built across the previous decade. The ...

Utahraptor State Park is named for a famous dinosaur. But it has even more to offer.

To understand how we started counting, and still count today, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, though, we need to wind the clock back to an era before the dawn of ...

The SpaceX CEO reveals renderings of the upcoming satellites, which feature an exceptionally long solar array, and teases a ...

Powerful geomagnetic storms sent the northern lights dancing far beyond the poles, delivering a spectacular show across the ...

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ever before using the Hubble Space Telescope – and revealed a mystery ...