About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a 2.35-billion-year-old lunar meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has unveiled fresh insights into the moon’s volcanic history. This meteorite, with a unique chemical ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late ...

A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...

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

In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying stars called pulsars. This encore episode: Jocelyn ...

Lowell Observatory Astronomy Discovery Center. When: The observatory is open noon-10 p.m. Wednesdays-Mondays; closed on Tuesdays.The grand opening of the Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery ...

Neptune’s discovery seems almost inevitable in retrospect, but when Le Verrier first published his new planet prediction in June 1846, he found no one willing to look for it.