January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

UC Berkeley's SETI@home project, a crowdsourced scientific research initiative, identified nearly 12 billion potential ...

After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, ...

The stellar corpse is spewing star stuff, which is heating and compressing surrounding gas, resulting in a multicolored ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Jupiter reaches opposition overnight on Jan. 10, when it appears its brightest in 2026 opposite the sun in Earth's sky.

Scientists have theorized that dark matter clumps exist in staggering numbers, far more than the galaxies we see. Only clumps ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

When it comes to viewing nebulae, galaxies, and other deep-sky objects, amateur astronomers on a budget have had two options.