Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

The 2026 budget request states that NSF will operate only one of the two LIGO sites, drastically reducing its cosmic ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...

Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, "missing link" phase of its evolution.

The “National Science Foundation FY 2026 Budget Request to Congress” calls the LIGO system “the most sensitive detector of ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

A new study links a pulsar wind nebula to the origin of fast cosmic rays. Researchers also explore how these particles affect ...

In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar ...