Vicki Kuhn, a graduate student in Mizzou’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, led the study. Kuhn’s passion for studying astronomy began during high school. University of Missouri scientists are ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier studies suggested, based on a large survey of nearby galaxies.

Recent astronomical studies suggest a compelling new perspective on our place in the universe: it is now believed to be 100 times more likely that Earth resides in a vast cosmic void. This ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

KEARNEY — A comet streaking across the night sky. The northern lights illuminating a Nebraska landscape. A supermoon rising over the horizon. They’re examples of our fascination with astronomy. At the ...

Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in India and elsewhere have conducted a long-term photometric and spectroscopic study of a young stellar object ...