Yewande Oluwole, 5, and her sister Jadesola, 3, love astronomy and can name every planet—even the dwarf planets. But peering ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has dramatically transformed the field of astronomy since its launch, precipitating groundbreaking discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of the ...

Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible in the night sky that will make for a beautiful and rewarding sight, whether ...

Alfred University Assistant Astronomy Professor Connor Robinson recently lectured at the European Southern Observatory Headquarters outside of Munich, Ger., on a proposal to be submitted to NASA for ...

Abu Dhabi: A rare celestial spectacle is set to grace the UAE’s skies this month. The International Astronomy Center announced that the Al Khatim Observatory captured images at dawn on Friday of a ...

NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...

Lake Geneva, Wis., is a playground for Chicago’s wealthy, but there’s plenty to do for normies, too, and it’s a quick road trip away.

Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...

Transparent telescope brings 'stunning deep-sky details' closer to home While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French smart ...

Scientists armed with the immense observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected faint traces of fluorescent flatulence leaking out from the dwarf planet Makemake, which lurks ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's Atacama Desert. The image was captured with the newly installed SOAR ...

A new 3-D map provides the most detailed chart of nearby stellar nurseries yet, revealing the predicted glowing gas in and around all the star-forming regions within about 4,000 light-years of the sun ...