Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Dec. 13 with free admission and a special ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star.

Bloemfontein could become South Africa’s top astro-tourism spot, using clear skies, observatories and planetariums to draw ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly while others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand ...

The countdown to the Islamic months leading up to Ramadan has begun, with Egypt’s National Research Institute of Astronomy ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is ...

The Geminids peak annually in mid-December, when Earth passes through a dense trail of cosmic dust left behind by the ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.