Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter. By ...

The full harvest supermoon will shine brightly in the night sky Tuesday evening. A partial lunar eclipse, with a “bite” taken ...

Ground-based interferometry on Earth has proven to be a successful method for conducting science by combining light from ...

Every Wednesday at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. the planetarium shows one of four films: “From Earth to the Universe,” about the history ...

T Corona Borealis, commonly known as the "blaze star," may flare up and be visible to the naked eye on Earth for the first ...

A UA professor is developing algorithms used to interpret data obtained by telescopes and computer simulations to investigate ...

A rare super blue moon was visible in Oregon Monday night but there is still a chance to see a very bright "supermoon" the ...

While modern humans tend to think of science in terms of innovations made during the past 100 to 200 years, mankind has ...

Radio astronomy using millimeter waves dates back ... usage was radar-based vehicle collision avoidance in the 1990s. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

Cutting-edge technology allows visitors and students to explore the boundaries of the universe and the depths of the earth in stunning high definition detail. Here, students gain outreach and teaching ...

Its discovery came from one of the most unexpected results in the history of astronomy: in the late 1990s, two groups studying far-off supernovae discovered that these explosions of dying ...

Sirius—as that wonderful aid to physical astronomy, the spectroscope ... but will depend wholly on the sharpness of definition obtained in the original picture. There is now being erected ...