Taylor Observatory and Norton Planetarium offers cosmic educational events from the Earth and beyond for all ages.

A private company is pressing ahead with plans to construct a giant renewable energy complex in sight of one of Earth's most ...

We've all come to appreciate the beautiful images space telescopes provide us of galaxies, nebulas and more, but they also provide astronomers with important scientific information about our universe.

A boom in satellites is brightening the night sky and hindering astronomers’ ability to study distant galaxies, sharpening concerns over who controls access to space. Planned spacecraft launches are ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is estimated to be 13.6 billion years old. It began to form a few hundred million years after the ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

December's long nights brim with astronomical phenomena, from a luminous supermoon to dazzling meteor showers and nebula ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

It’s December, and we’re in our darkest month. It is also now meteorological winter — the name given to the coldest three months of the year (December, January and February). December comes with one ...

Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a team led by ...