For thousands of years, humans could only see the planets in our own solar system. Today, astronomers have discovered thousands more orbiting distant stars. This video explains how small changes in ...

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

Here's next year's full moon schedule, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac: Wolf Moon: Jan. 3 at 5:03 a.m. Snow Moon: Feb. 1 at 5:09 p.m. Worm Moon: March 3 at 6:38 a.m. Pink Moon: April 1 at 10:12 ...

Now decades later, the 78-year-old Salvia, a student at Santa Barbara City College, has no shortage of stories. With 17 college degrees and half a dozen professional certificates, and a life full of ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology ...

A heritage of dark sky preservation means residents of Flagstaff welcome the season’s longer nights with prolonged views of ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

Comet 3I/Atlas is just the third known object to visit us from outside our solar system. So yes... we'll be talking about aliens.

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...