Parts of 15 states could have a chance at seeing the Northern Lights on overnight on Tuesday if the weather cooperates.

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made ...

Meteor showers, eclipses and full moons will appear in California skies this summer. Mark your calendars with these dates, stargazers.

( Nanowerk News) Researchers led by Ph.D student Serikbek Sailanbek from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates to study the sky. The […] ...

In the intriguing realm of star-forming galaxies, the key factor isn't the total amount of gas but rather its strategic distribution within the galaxy.

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

Researchers at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) made the discovery about galaxies by studying ...

Such a mission could let researchers peer through all the light there is, all the way back to the universe’s very first light ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Utilizing advanced imaging techniques, researchers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories determined that the ...