Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you're ...

My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions were mostly ...

A team of astronomers has used the Very Large Telescope to discover a humble planet orbiting Barnard's star, one of the ...

The world—which orbits Barnard's Star, just six light-years from us—has a year that lasts barely three Earth days.

The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

The conjunction of the Moon and Venus on October 6 will be visible in the night sky for about an hour and thirty-three ...

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

Comet C/2023 A3 is expected to surge in brightness, caused by forward scattering of sunlight by cometary dust grains, around ...

The Sci-Tech Center of Northern New York will host a free public astronomy observing session at 8:30 p.m., Friday Oct. 11 at ...

SpaceX's new Starlink satellites are so radio noisy that they could blind radio astronomy observatories to the universe's ...

Astronomy Photographer of the Year, the annual photo competition showcasing all things space, is back. Ed Bloomer, senior ...

Whipple Observatory set to reopen with new Science Center, expanding access to astronomy for rural communities ...