Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

They have been there for millennia, before the earth was born, taking light years to reach us. For all you know, that shining ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on our planet, explore the wonders of our star's domain, or venture into the ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the first telescope specifically engineered to identify habitable, Earth-like ...

The drive to Meteor Crater takes you through quintessential Arizona landscape – endless horizons, scattered juniper and pinyon pines, and that particular shade of rusty orange soil that seems to exist ...

They sky is filled with celestial treats this month, including a close Earth-approach by two comets. Can you see in NJ?

The world – named GJ 251 c and lying less than 20 light years away – is thought to be a “super Earth”, a class of planets ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

The discovery of quasi-moon PN7 has caused a stir on social media. A University of Oregon astronomy professor explains. what ...