What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

The discovery of a new asteroid in the Earth's orbit around the sun has led to chatter that it's a second moon.

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

Mississippi State's Department of Physics and Astronomy, along with the Astronomy Club, plans to host a special event just in ...

November's full moon will be the closest supermoon of 2025, set to shine for days. Here's when to watch and what to know ...

Late October offers a meteor shower generated by Haley's Comet plus a once in a lifetime comet that streaks by Earth every ...

The period of visibility will fall within the dates of the Orionid meteor shower, making for a once-in-a-lifetime viewing ...