The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

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

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought ...

Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

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Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings. Venus, at magnitude -4, is the brilliant morning “star” in the east. It ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...