Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

Look up some time at the night sky, glinting and humming with all manner of illumination — planes taking off from or ...

The telescope has the world's largest digital camera, which is the size of a small car, weighs 2,800 kg, and boasts a ...

Nestled where Florida meets Georgia at the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers (which form the mighty Apalachicola), this 686-acre slice of paradise offers the kind of tranquility that ...

Now the diameter of the known universe can be described as 558 billion trillion miles (that’s 558 followed by 21 zeros) or 28 gigaparsecs. If you’re like most astronomers, I’m pretty sure which size ...

That means returning from the moon, the Artemis astronauts will be traveling at around 0.0037% the speed of light. Assuming a ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

While this may sound scary, there is little chance humanity will survive to see the end of the universe. In about five ...

Astronomers have discovered 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system—here’s what we know so far.

We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...