What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Mississippi State's Department of Physics and Astronomy, along with the Astronomy Club, plans to host a special event just in ...

November's full moon will be the closest supermoon of 2025, set to shine for days. Here's when to watch and what to know ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Metallicity is a fundamental part of the Universe. The Big Bang created mostly hydrogen, the simplest and lightest element, ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

In a preprint titled “Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,” Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

The SETI Institute announced today that the California Academy of Sciences has awarded its highest honor, the Fellows Medal, ...

Stargazers in Cork are in for a treat this week as one of the biggest and brightest full moons they'll see in their lifetimes is set to appear over Ireland this week. This is the first of three ...

Late October offers a meteor shower generated by Haley's Comet plus a once in a lifetime comet that streaks by Earth every ...