In Astronomy’s March 2010 issue, I shared insight into five of the biggest questions facing astronomy today. But that was just an arbitrary list, and there are plenty more cosmic conundrums scientists ...

It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed ...

Sometimes in fantasy fiction, you don’t want to explain something that seems inexplicable, so you throw your hands up and say, “A wizard did it.” Sometimes in astronomy, instead of a wizard, the ...

An image generated by the deep-learning image-generation model DALL·E 2 in response to the prompt: “An oil painting of an AI language model trying to answer questions about astronomy.” DALL·E 2/OpenAI ...

Astronomy Days at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is underway. The annual event normally held the last Saturday and Sunday in January, spanning both wings of the museum has moved online ...

The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy department. Aida Melgarejo, a Spanish linguistics student, said she came across ...

In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope began operations, making it the first great NASA observatory, capable of seeing to the far reaches of the distant Universe. It's shown us what our Universe looks ...