NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which launched in March 2025, is poised to transform our understanding of the universe. By creating ...

The U.S. has one of the world’s most advanced systems to monitor air pollutants. Can it keep up with a changing climate?

For the first time in anyone’s lifetime, the southern heavens are hosting not one but two naked-eye novae an event so rare ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

“On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, ...

Collaboration has obtained a high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum in the energy range of 10 GeV/n–8 TeV/n, and discovered ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The Standard Model of particle physics o ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

In July 2025, astronomers identified an exceptionally rare interstellar comet currently speeding through our Solar System.

Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our solar system — only the third ...