Photo: Mechanical Engineering sophomore Gabriella Mayrend is studying policies to improve passenger vehicle safety and crash test dummy design, aiming to ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...

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Tenerife may be known for its beaches, but it’s the island’s stargazing that leaves the biggest impression, boasting some of ...

From two meteor showers to the second supermoon of the year, here are the top astronomy events to mark down on your November 2025 calendar. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices in tour of San ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other telescopes, the Rubin Observatory is working to capture the night sky in real-time ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House pressed U.S. Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during an elaborate military demonstration for the service's 250th ...

S tudents often sign up for general-education courses because they have to. And so they tend to be skeptical that such courses are relevant to their lives. Doug Duncan, an emeritus faculty member in ...

As one half of the International Gemini Observatory, the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii provides astronomers with a window into the distant universe, from growing stars to evolving galaxies. Its ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...