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 ...

The University of Manchester will play a key role in a new European collaboration, which aims to boost accessibility and ...

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

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

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

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

Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus ...

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

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 ...

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 ...