About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...
Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...
More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...
From Neil Armstrong to an all UM crew on an Apollo mission, the University of Michigan and Purdue University both featured large in the advent of space travel.
"If this is a massive star, it is a collapse unlike anything we have ever witnessed before." Astronomers have spotted a cosmic explosion of high-energy gamma-rays unlike any ever seen before. The ...
A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky—such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing ...