A sweeping cosmic census from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled nearly 1,700 galaxy groups—marking the deepest and ...

June’s night skies provide excellent opportunities to discover a slice of the evening sky that is largely unsung, unheralded ...

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

Africa Month serves as a reminder of the urgent need for change in a continent rich in resources but plagued by poverty and ...

Astronomers have uncovered new evidence that helps solve one of space’s biggest mysteries—the existence of intermediate-mass ...

Lego Masters is back for its seventh season, “Grand Masters of the Galaxy.” Contestants from six countries will face off against Aussie teams, some of whom have never built together before. Ten teams ...

Gaia, which stands for Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, has nothing to do with the Greek goddess of the ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

When travelers plan their North Carolina itineraries, they typically pencil in the majestic Smoky Mountains or the historic Biltmore Estate. But furniture enthusiasts and the design-curious are making ...

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

But are the nuclei of atoms really round? Intuitively this shape makes sense and physicists believed it aptly explained early ...

Since the corona is dimmer than the Sun's surface, it's challenging to observe. It's visible during total solar eclipses when ...