Maybe you have had a casual interest in astronomy for years, looking up at the night sky every chance you get. Or maybe you’ve just recently become interested in the wonders hanging high above our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the long-lived Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have been providing amazing images to earthbound viewers for some time now. Along with other instruments, these ...

Kupono Mele-Ana-Kekua, of Kaaawa, Hawaii, blows a conch shell near the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island in August. Mele-Ana-Kekua had been camping on the mountain in protest of the Thirty ...

Stargazers across Gainesville joined millions of people worldwide Saturday night to celebrate International Observe the Moon ...

Hubble has run into more trouble. The space telescope slipped into a hibernating state more than a week ago when one of its three remaining gyroscopes — part of the pointing system — malfunctioned.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Astronomy professor Michael Meyer is at the forefront of the study of exoplanets — a field that ...

Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, where the pursuit of scientific discovery and innovation meets cutting-edge research and academic excellence. Our ...