Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

An international team of scientists have modelled formation and evolution of strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.

One photographer put the age of starlight into perspective with stunning projections on some of Earth's oldest rock ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

This type of eclipse is called an occultation, which occurs when the Moon or other celestial object passes in front of another celestial object, such as a star or a planet. The word “occultation ...

But according to an international team of researchers, including some from the University of Geneva, in a study published ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Stargazing at Enchanted Rock goes beyond mere sightseeing; it reconnects you with the cosmos. Whether you're an avid ...

Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This ...