With the hashtag #ScientistsforMaunaKea, scientists are sharing their opposition to the construction of the $1.4 billion telescope on sacred land.
Maria Mitchell was the only widely recognized and respected female astronomer of her time—something she fought to change.
Californians are arrested on Charlottesville-related charges, Missouri is down to one abortion clinic, and researchers may have found a far-off moon.
A professor of engineering breaks down what the 'Oumuamua projectile could possibly be and the secrets it could hold–but we still have no definite answers.
They figured out a math problem related to the path of Jupiter—14 centuries before top British and French scientists did.
Today, NASA released the highest-resolution photos ever made of the dwarf planet Pluto. We've posted them alongside contemporary accounts of the ice dwarf's discovery, 85 years ago.
Sexism is an important component, but it's more than that.
Enough with studies blaming the moon for our behavior, one University of California-Los Angeles astronomer pleads.
Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez on black holes and the center of our galaxy.
A retired Google exec’s dream of ringing the planet with telescopes available to kids and professional astronomers has assisted in some recent discoveries.
Jacob Zuma says the World Cup can score an economic goal for his country, but a collection of international astronomers meeting in his backyard have a starry-eyed yet down-to-earth suggestion for the developing world.
Surveillance around the clock is offered to schoolchildren and astrophysicists via Internet-linked telescopes girding the globe.
Planet hunter Geoff Marcy scans the skies for answers to the universal question of other life.