Bob Benjamin is an ORHS Class of 1983 alumnus who has tirelessly worked to figure out what the Milky Way looks like.

A single gamma-ray burst has forced astronomers to redraw their mental map of how the most violent explosions in the universe ...

Explore the mystery of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as it nears Earth. Learn why this 33-billion-ton object with a bizarre ...

Only the third interstellar object recorded as visiting our solar system, 3I/ATLAS will be closest to the Earth on 19 ...

Webb traced the light of a dying star, supernova GRB 250314A, from when the universe was only 730 million years old.

Just yesterday (Dec. 15), the Green River levee was breached, raising the specter of flash flooding in Tukwila, south of ...

Billionaire Jared Isaacman is taking the reins at NASA at a challenging time for the space agency, as it faces budget cuts ...

A remarkable science project sees a quirky comparison of vast and small. Curated by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a ...

Gil Gerard, who played television's hunky sci-fi hero William "Buck" Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in ...

Scientists search for "decaying" dark matter (DDM) because it offers unique signatures like specific X-ray or gamma-ray lines ...

The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...