Francis Halzen wins the 2026 award for his work on a neutrino observatory at the South Pole that has helped to unlock ...

Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets orbiting stars. We can also map where these galaxies sit and trace how the ...

The moon’s surface experienced a violent encounter with a comet or an asteroid — and has a massive battle scar to prove it. The space rock, estimated to be the size of a building three to six stories ...

This image provided by the European Space Agency in 2023 shows Euclid’s view of the irregular dwarf galaxy called NGC 6822. Euclid will observe billions of galaxies, creating the largest 3D map ever ...

Scientists don’t know what they’ll find until they find it.

NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer) space telescope ...

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the ...

The universe may be trapped in its own comfort zone, and a researcher in the College of Engineering and Computer Science has helped explain why it cannot seem to leave. A new study suggests the ...

When JWST's first science results started rolling in, it was a triumph for scientific vision and persistence. For years, the fate of the powerful space telescope was uncertain. It went way over budget ...

A months-long search for a missing Ohio teenager has ended with her being found safe. The 17-year-old, who had been missing for 263 days, was discovered alive at the home of former Springfield City ...