A rare astronomical event will light up the night sky in January as six planets will be visible from the naked eye in what is ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a light pollution risk due to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...

This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

The Alaska researchers studied radio astronomy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and had their own tracking station in a ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.

Astronomer Dean Regas gives us the lowdown on the best things to look out for this winter, from a “planet parade” to the ...