The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding stars — Type Ia supernovae — over the next decade. These brilliant explosions ...

A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...

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Astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Don Pettit joined The Excerpt to share the perspective gained from ...

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When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the universe. Before that, astronomy depended on observations of light in all its ...

I was completely thrown for a loop. I thought I was hallucinating for a second,’ a Jewish student enrolled in the class tells ...

On a wooded knoll on private property in Lake Angelus — less than a mile from the Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall in Auburn Hills — stands a hidden landmark to the history of science ...

IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow. For the rest of the hour, I’m asking you to look up, and no, not at the ceiling but at the night sky, like I did this week where I saw an awesome ...

The expansion rate of the Universe has befuddled and concerned researchers for decades. Recent measurements have only added to the mystery and heightened the alarm within the scientific community, ...

For stargazers and wildlife watchers, monoculars can be an effective alternative to telescopes or binoculars. Here's how they work. Want to bring the cosmos closer without breaking the bank or ...

The graduate PhD program in Physics & Astronomy is a small, personal, yet challenging environment where graduate students will receive advanced instruction and guidance to grow as independent research ...