"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

Boston-area students gained career mentors, transferrable media production skills, and behind-the-scenes experiences at the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 36 years of incredible discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on astronomy.

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

Once operational, the antennas are expected to significantly enhance GMRT’s capabilities, especially for high-frequency studies ...

Sure, we want to study how different systems form and why many look different from our own, but we would also like to find ...

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes ...

Astronomers believe that there have been three generations of stars in the universe. The first, which are yet to be seen ...

World-leading scientists are leaving long-held positions at Western institutions for universities in Hong Kong, as rising research funding there and geopolitical tensions and weakening support in the ...

They’re struggling to connect the dots. Scientists are baffled over mysterious dots captured by the James Webb Space Telescope — with some suggesting they could be giant stars from the origins of the ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

For decades, astronomers have struggled to differentiate giant planets from brown dwarfs, a class of objects more massive ...