This year, people will have the opportunity to witness events such as meteor showers, eclipses, moon cycles and many more, ...

NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos. Researchers have now been able to study some of a supernova's progression by ...

The Hilltopper Astronomy Club put off its monthly solar observation to wait for clearer skies. The club plans to set up telescopes Thursday outside Hardin Planetarium if the weather permits. The event ...

Deep in the cosmos, an enigmatic object emits gamma rays at energies more than 100 TeV, an intensity far beyond what we ...

Credit: Hanne Siebers/National Trust Images/Cover Images National Trust rangers at Orford Ness are celebrating a record pupping season after 430 grey seal pups were born at the site this winter. The ...

Plans for several new military telescopes atop the mountain are drawing strong opposition. But protests over other Maui ...

For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration ...

Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

JWST and ESA’s Ariel mission plan coordinated exoplanet observations starting in 2030, combining high-resolution targeting and large-scale surveys to expand atmospheric data collection.

Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...

On April 24, 1990, humanity launched a scientific revolution. I mean “launched” literally: on that date the space shuttle Discovery roared into the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled in its ...

Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much larger than anything astronomers have seen before in the distant universe.