Between the 8th and 14th centuries, cities like Baghdad, Cordoba and Cairo shaped the intellectual direction of humanity.

One story rose above all the others — new and older telescopes are putting us on the cusp of monumental discoveries about our universe.

The Roman Space Telescope is one of NASA's next great observatories, designed to explore some of the biggest questions in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

On Dec. 25, 2020, an RV exploded in downtown Nashville, killing the driver of the vehicle and injuring eight people.

On Dec. 25, 2020, an RV exploded in downtown Nashville, killing the driver of the vehicle and injuring eight people.

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the “Christmas Star” from the ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

Jared Isaacman will lead NASA as it sends astronauts around the moon and hopes to launch a space telescope to study dark ...

One such superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational ...

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...