Charleston, SC, astronomy professor answers questions from high school students about wormholes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space odors and more.

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, likely collapsing into a black hole without exploding as a supernova ...

What did Galileo invent? Why was he put under house arrest? On his birth anniversary, take this ThePrint quiz to check how ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS flaring dramatically months after its closest pass by ...

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) offers new insights into cosmic expansion and dark energy, gathered over six years and 758 nights of observations.

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's ...

Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

Astronomers have reported one of the longest stellar dimming events ever recorded, with a Sun-like star fading by 97 percent for nearly 200 days. Astronomers believe one of the longest stellar dimming ...

INSIDE THIS REPORT The discovery did not arrive with spectacle. It arrived in spectral lines—quiet, technical, and unmistakable. NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has now detected organic molecules streaming ...