A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Snow Moon will be visible Feb. 1. What we know about it, including peak illumination and if skies will be clear in Oklahoma.

As much as I love looking at the night sky, my love for astronomy really grew with the books I read. People often ask what books I would recommend for those interested in the subject, so this list ...

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

Skies around Central Indiana are expected to be mostly cloudy with a low around 10, according to the National Weather Service in Indianapolis. Coincidentally, Central Indiana has a 30 percent chance ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...