The University of Connecticut’s planetarium, located North Eagleville Road in Storrs, has been renamed in honor of UConn’s first female physics professor, Cynthia Wyeth Peterson.
Earth welcomed asteroid 2024 PT5 as a temporary moon. 2024 PT5, 37 feet wide, is leaving Earth's orbit in November. Scientists study mini-moons like 2024 PT5 to improve tracking.
Astronomers combined images from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to create the highest-resolution image of two galaxies, IC 2163 on left and NGC 2207, on the verge of ...