Astronomers have captured a first-of-its-kind image of a massive dying star.

There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

Black holes remain invisible, so researchers focus on the light that orbits, falls in, or escapes at the last possible moment ...

Space weather is hard to predict, but two forecast maps show Indiana could see dazzling auroras beginning Nov. 11. Here's ...

Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Teymour Taj meets astronomy MPhil student Gabriella Rajpoot, who works on an experiment uncovering the origins of the ...

Bill Piccinni, 67, was riding his bike by the Franklin Institute when something halted his pedaling. The Lunar Module looked ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has dramatically shed its comet-like tail, adopting a luminous, spherical shape and sparking ...

Customers send their telescopes to Starfront Observatories, where amateur stargazers can view the night sky unencumbered by ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...

Michael Steven Harris earned People's Choice at the British Photography Awards for this stacked, long-exposure image ...