After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev ...

A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

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

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

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

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