SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for ...

At the unexpected intersection of astronomy and animation is Rodney Levendosky, a senior majoring in animation and visual ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

As a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, AIP is a federation that advances the success of our Member Societies and an institute that ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...

In a recently published study, Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo's astronomy department claims to have observed ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

In a groundbreaking development in the field of astronomy, scientists may have captured the first direct image of dark matter, nearly 100 years after it was first theorized. This invisible yet ...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are important carriers of organic matter throughout the universe. As organic ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...

A new trick with light has now helped capture the sharpest-ever measurement of a disk around a nearby star, beta Canis ...