Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

The annual Badlands Astronomy Festival brings together space science professionals, amateur astronomers, educators, and ...

It doesn't happen often that Mercury ranks as the planetary highlight of the evening sky, but July is an exception. The solar ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

In February 2025, a stunning planetary alignment–also known as the planet parade–allowed observers to see seven planets in the night sky simultaneously: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

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

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...