A group of astronomers reported watching two formations of mysterious lights race silently above their observatory before one vanished in an instant. Eight members of the Salford Astronomical Society, ...

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Rocket launches this week On Monday, Nov. 2, Rocket Lab launched The Sea God Surveys on an Electron rocket from its Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula at 11:41 a.m. EST. Aboard was a ...

Graduate student Vinicius Ferreira Rodrigues, a member of Professor Denis Candido's Condensed Matter Group, earned a Gold ...

After a rescue mission failed to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the doomed spacecraft is due to plummet back to Earth in a blaze of fire this week. Most of Swift should burn up in the ...

It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system and are searching the atmospheres ...

🚨 Elon Musk says we might one day meet aliens and discover the remains of an ancient alien civilization. He would know. He ...

The Dawn of Multi-messenger Astronomy Watched by an 'Eye' Beneath the Ice: IceCube and the Endless Depths of the ...

New LEGO Harry Potter 2027 rumors: the modular Hogwarts Castle may get an Astronomy Tower, plus Azkaban could arrive as a set ...

Astronomers working mostly in Chile dated VVV CL001, a faint globular cluster buried behind dust near the galactic center, at ...

Dr. Lynn Cominsky, founder and Director Emerita of Sonoma State University’s EdEon STEM Learning, has been named to a ...

Astronomy magazine is proud to announce the winners of its 2026 Astrophotography Contest, presented by Celestron - the magazine's first photo contest in 13 years. More than 1,400 entries poured in ...