Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines ...

Despite light pollution, locals have options when looking to explore the stars. The Sacramento State Planetarium, Community ...

The Rho Ophiuchi nebula system is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and as such has come under the scrutiny of both ...

Sophisticated computational models let us examine objects such as supernova remnants in extraordinary detail and from every angle.

To best see the Lyrid meteor shower, Griffith Observatory's director suggests heading to the mountains or desert to get away from light pollution that can cloud the view. California will have some of ...

The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory ... a clear view of Earth, part of the search for life elsewhere. Lisa Kaltenegger, Cornell University: More than a thousand stars could ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

"It gives us a reference point to calibrate how stars spin down over billions of years." Stock image of the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Stock image of the W. M. Keck Observatory ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The scattered waves create a pattern of bright and dim patches that drifts over ...

I really shouldn’t be doing astronomy at all. TM: So what do you love about the night sky? JM: I like looking at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant. When that star exploded, it was observed by ...