Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

The meteor shower is known for being bright and colorful. And this year, the peak will happen this weekend, giving more people the chance to see it.

The next-gen Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is slated to explore vast cosmic voids to uncover the hidden forces shaping ...

Teresa Paneque learned in September that she was a top prize winner for the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications for her social media work, previous book ...

We've all come to appreciate the beautiful images space telescopes provide us of galaxies, nebulas and more, but they also provide astronomers with important scientific information about our universe.

The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius), hot enough to make fusion reactions work perfectly. 5 million gigapascals. Think about this: the ...

One of the reasons astronomers like to put telescopes in space is that the “seeing” is better. With no turbulent atmosphere in the way the stars shine steadily, rather than twinkling as they do when ...

NASA has released the latest images of 3I/ATLAS taken by the Hubble as scientists and observers prepare to spot the comet in ...

We’ve been receiving calls into the WTOP Newsroom reporting phenomena in the skies that people can’t explain — but our space expert can.

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Space junk pollution that includes satellites is expected to be seen more frequently as time goes on, he said. “That's going ...

Unlike YR4, finding earlier observations of 3I/ATLAS to model where it might have come from was easier said than done. During ...