The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

The mysterious space rock that passed through our solar system grew significantly brighter as it left, according to ...

Cincinnati's Clovernook Press partners with astronomer Dean Regas to create an innovative astronomy book with braille features for all readers.

Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman on Wednesday named an interim chancellor for UW-Madison, filling a vacancy ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

Big Island students have just days left to show off their art skills by drawing a design representing majestic Mauna Kea and its many different aspects — such as its natural resources, astronomy and ...

Only about one third of students could correctly identify basic astronomical distance scales, with many unaware that stars ...

Cáceres Holgado is originally from Cusco, Peru, and is currently studying astronomy, physics, and astrobiology at the University of Kansas. When she was 17, she traveled thousands of miles to pursue ...

Hawaiʻi Island’s largest astronomy education program, Journey Through the Universe, hosted its 22nd year of classroom visits, career panels, and community events in Hilo last week.

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

Discover how high-speed wavefront sensing enhances space situational awareness by overcoming atmospheric distortion.

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...