New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

The nebulosity of hydrogen gas is revealed with the use of a “Hydrogen-Alpha” filter in an astro image of the Cygnus ...

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for signs of life on Earth-like planets. The detection of biosignatures from ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

And if some people try to tell us that not everything deserves the amount of awe we'd like to bestow, well, we'll point in the direction of Death Valley National Park, a Gold Tier Dark Sky Park and ...

Astronomers and astronomy buffs will get cosmic at the starry celebration.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

With the new year underway, it’s time to celebrate a remarkable 2024 full of citizen science with the Unistellar Network! Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers came together once again to ...