It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...

As the University of Arkansas at Little Rock prepares to reopen its newly renovated planetarium in fall 2026, excitement is building across campus for the return of a beloved landmark and the ...

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion ...

The TMT project is back under consideration for federal support, but it must complete a final design phase without taxpayer ...

Astronomers have detected a ghostly galaxy that is almost completely made of dark matter. The faint object was revealed by just four globular star clusters hiding in the Perseus cluster.

Standing inside a dome in Citadel Mall, under a simulated sky, it’s easy to forget how remarkable that is: a city known for its past now helping shape curiosity about the future. The Charleston ...

Sci-fi is an enduring genre on the small screen, even if the budgets couldn't always match the big screen, and these are the ...

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree ...

Rubin Observatory begins sending hundreds of thousands of nightly alerts as it prepares for its 10-year sky survey, tracking supernovae, asteroids, galaxies and other changing objects in near real ...

Two Juniata College faculty members have been recognized with the 2026 Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum ...

The UH Institute for Astronomy and Bishop Museum are hosting a watch party starting at 11 p.m. this Monday through 2:30 a.m. early Tuesday.