Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

As the sun dipped low to the southwest of the Grand Canyon, tourists flocked to the rim. They lined up to catch the shuttle ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

The strange binary system R Aquarii spews material into the interstellar medium like a lawn sprinkler as its stars interact.

KU astronomy hosted a a stargazing and planetarium event on Nov. 7 at Slawson Hall for students, staff and faculty to spend a ...

The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno The ghosts of stars are up to their usual mischief. By Dennis Overbye The Pentagon needs what the company offers to compete with China even as it frets over its ...

It’s easy to assume that stargazing is only about looking into a telescope towards the night sky, but there are several different ways to view a night under the stars. Led by Ilias Cholis, the ...

Elias Mansell ’24 MA ’25, combined his background in classics and pursuits in astronomy as the host of a planetarium show, ...

The Astronomy Club meets every two weeks ... hope to plan out-of-town trips for events such as the annual Nebraska Star Party near Valentine. “We have really big hopes and plans for this ...