With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for.

Teresa Paneque learned in September that she was a top prize winner for the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence ...

Our Solar System, instead of traveling through empty space, is surrounded by clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers recently ...

With uncertainty surrounding program funding, federal cuts and state budget shortfalls, some University of Washington ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority ...

University of Chicago students Logan Hanssler and Elijah Jenkins, both fourth-years in the College, have been selected as 2026 Marshall Scholars. Each will be provided the opportunity to study in ...

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an incoming coronal mass ejection is expected to slam into Earth today.

A brilliant point of light is rising in the eastern sky soon after dark this month, drawing comparisons to the "Star of ...

A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: the sterile neutrino.

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...