Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, December 12Ganymede reappears from occultation behind Jupiter ...

There are already tens of thousands of pieces of large debris in orbit, some of which pose a threat to functional satellites.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...

Before the ribbon cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by Westfield High School Astronomy Club members Krystyna Goulette and Kaitlyn Goulette — ...

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while launching more missions and increasing the total science return. If ESCAPADE ...

Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Kip Thorne, came to the BYU campus to lecture about his discoveries and ...