These special fungi had travelled to space, lived aboard the International Space Station for more than a month, returned safely to Earth, and eventually came back to Australia in ...

Scientists want to use a solar slingshot to catch up with the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, that thing that may-or-may-not have been a UFO. In the months since it was spotted drifting into our solar ...

Roanoke native Beth Brown took her childhood passion and endless curiosity for the world around her and manifested it into a remarkable career, where she became the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D.

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections ...

Job postings are removed from the RCUH Job Openings site once the recruitment process has ended. Regular, Full-Time, RCUH Non-Civil Service position with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Celestron, Earth’s number one telescope brand, today announced the launch of the Lumina Program, a buy-one, give-one initiative designed to expand access to hands-on astronomy education for K-12 ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Big Island students have just days left to show off their art skills by drawing a design representing majestic Mauna Kea and its many different aspects — such as its natural resources, astronomy and ...

Hawaiʻi Island’s largest astronomy education program, Journey Through the Universe, hosted its 22nd year of classroom visits, career panels, and community events in Hilo last week.