For as long as humans have walked the Earth, the great endless sky and the countless stars that fill it have left us in a ...

Star maps and charts are a mainstay of both amateur and professional sky observers. Whether it's on a simple seasonal map or ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

Following a sentencing in the Johnson County Courthouse Monday morning, former University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy ...

“Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned.

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in ...

Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Dec. 13 with free admission and a special exhibit on its history.

On November 17, 1966, the Leonid meteor shower produced one of the most remarkable meteor displays in recorded history. Observers in North America documented peak rates of thousands of meteors per ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.