Astronomy

An Ohio State University professor is helping lead a project NASA says will play an important role in space science over the next decade.Astronomers want…

NASA’s Orion spacecraft arrived in Mansfield over the weekend, bringing the organization another step towards its goal of having a manned flight back to…

A black hole was discovered to be shredding a star 375 million light-years away. This phenomenon, known as a tidal disruption, was captured by a series of…

A NASA satellite and a network of robotic telescopes at The Ohio State University gave astronomers a look at a black hole ripping up a star. Conditions…

The name pays tribute to the legacy of African American women who played a major role in the space race but were long overlooked by history.

NASA’s Glenn Research Center is playing a key role in the mission to take astronauts back to the moon and on to Mars, Administrator Jim Bridenstine said during a visit to Cleveland Monday. “The moon is our proving ground for how do we live and work on another world, so that we can go to Mars,” Bridenstine said. “And the sooner we can prove that out on the moon, the sooner we can move on to Mars.”

Every image you've ever seen of a black hole has been a simulation. Until now. "We have seen what we thought was unseeable," said Event Horizon Telescope Director Shep Doeleman.

What are we part of that is roughly 93 billion light years in diameter and expanding?The universe. In his new book “Your Place in the Universe:…

Tom Burns ends his 25-year avocation as director of Ohio Wesleyan University Perkins Observatory, where he has volunteered countless hours over the…

Astronomers have found 12 more moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. These moons are all small — just 5 kilometers or less across — and one of them behaves very strangely.