Photo taken on June 19, 2015 shows the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) at the Xinglong ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

Third-year undergraduate Isabelle “Izzy” Connor and two Ph.D. candidates at other universities have recently won awards to further their research in astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

"We really wanted to lean into the cooperative chaos of the video game," designer Derek Funkhouser adds. "That's a really ...

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

Hans Zimmer picks his greatest film scores! In his ranking, The Dark Knight and Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes beats ...

Researchers have long assumed that benzene is a precursor to interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), molecules that scientists think act as reservoirs of cosmic carbon. Benzene ...

How many alien societies exist, and are detectable? This famous formula gives us an idea. The Drake Equation, which was the agenda for a meeting of experts held in West Virginia in 1961, estimates N, ...

Although not safe for consumption, it offers insights into the chemical composition of interstellar space. Turns out, not just the Earth, even space has tonnes of alcohol! How? Like, as per ...