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

In doing so, the authors manage to sneak in a lot of fundamental astronomy, ensuring that their readers will come away with a good basic understanding of how stars and the universe form and evolve.

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

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have captured the first images of a planet in outer space with ...

High in the Chilean desert, the Extremely Large Telescope is taking shape. It promises sharper views of space than we've ever seen — but will Australian astronomers be able to use it?

Ithacans can now enjoy a drink alongside space science education thanks to the efforts of five graduate students in Cornell’s astronomy department.

The Springfield Museums, in collaboration with the Springfield STARS Club, is bringing back its popular monthly stargazing ...

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 ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Two astronauts — one ...

Under its four-meter dome, Florida Atlantic University’s Astronomical Observatory invites all astronomy enthusiasts for a ...