In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

In the search for elusive particles called neutrinos, researchers are stringing thousands of detectors in the depths of the ...

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"History shows us that whenever you do open a new 'energy window,' you never really know what you're going to find. It's completely unexplored." ...

< Visual impression of the ultra-high energy neutrino event observed in KM3NeT/ARCA. The different col ... The KM3NeT Collaboration ...

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018, but the hobby took off in earnest for me at the onset of the COVID years as ...

Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...

In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...

And if some people try to tell us that not everything deserves the amount of awe we'd like to bestow, well, we'll point in the direction of Death Valley National Park, a Gold Tier Dark Sky Park and ...