Ground-based optical astronomy primarily relies on nighttime observations due to the Sun's overwhelming brightness obscuring fainter celestial objects. Specialized solar telescopes and space-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent five-year study has uncovered new insights into the properties of yellow hypergiants, a heavy star class known for their dramatic outbursts. Scientists focused on Rho Cassiopeiae (Rho Cas), ...

Olivia Cooper (she/her) is an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow studying cosmic assembly from the lens of massive galaxy evolution. In her work, she uses multi-wavelength observations ...