On Thursday, July 17 there will be a pair of community science presentations about the night sky. First, a short talk and ...

Hotel Ursa in Orono has launched a celestial experience with Shawn Laatsch, a pioneer of the world’s first 3-D stereoscopic ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

Sky watchers around the world were treated to a spectacular full Moon last night as July's Buck Moon glowed in the sky. The ...

As the newest Superman film hits theaters, we cast our X-ray vision back on every live-action incarnation of the Fortress of ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

Explore the jaw-dropping astro images shortlisted for this year's competition, and let's guess who might take home the ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

In July 2023, a meteorite hunter found a 54-pound rock in Niger. They sent it to the Shanghai Astronomy Museum for analysis and experts determined the rock, dubbed NWA 16788, had likely broken away ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has made yet another exciting discovery—but it never works alone. Thanks ...