A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The image uses ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...

Nestled atop Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Lowell Observatory has been a cornerstone of astronomical discovery since 1894 — and it’s still inspiring curiosity today.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

The Drake Municipal Observatory has hosted a summer lecture series for more than 100 years. Start time issues have attendees ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

This Thursday we’ll have our first full moon of astronomical summer over Pottsville, although for practical purposes the moon ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...

By studying faint vibrations within stars, scientists using the Keck Planet Finder have discovered internal features that ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...