At the end of September, Earth gained a temporary "mini moon," a tiny asteroid from the Arjuna asteroid belt orbiting the Sun ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light.

In an article published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, new evidence suggests how supermassive black holes, with ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie and Richard Casey ’24 have explored an idea put forth by two ...

Dark matter is an essential element of galaxy formation and physics, according to the standard theory of how the universe ...

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The star — known as WOH G64 — is located 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

Physics is the study of the fundamental nature of everything ... Many of our physics graduates continue with graduate school in physics, astronomy or engineering. Others continue with professional ...