Humankind has entered a new era of space exploration: settlements on other planetary bodies are foreseen in the near future. Advanced technologies are being developed to support the adaptation to ...

Phil Plait is a professional astronomer and science communicator in Virginia. His column for Scientific American, The Universe, covers all things space. He writes the Bad Astronomy Newsletter ...

On June 17, in the year 2 B.C.E, a significant planetary conjunction occurred involving Venus and Jupiter. From Earth’s perspective, these two bright planets appeared to draw so close that they ...

The Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) is the late stage of the evolution of intermediate and low-mass stars and is of great importance for understanding stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, and the ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study complicates the story.

The stellar gear to help you reach for the skies, from the all-weather parka to the beginner-friendly telescope that can point you in the right direction.

After that reveal in Ahsoka Season 1 and Christensen's return in Season 2, it is confirmed that Anakin Skywalker will have a much bigger role in the second chapter. If that becomes the case, Anakin ...

Astronomers discovered a new class of cosmic explosions known as "extreme nuclear transients" that are the most powerful phenomena known, aside from the Big Bang.

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...

Our teaching and research interests span the entire Universe with exciting observational and theoretical programs in cosmology, extra-solar planets, transients, star formation, black holes and ...

Our galaxy may not collide with its neighbor after all, suggests new research. For over a century, astronomers believed a dramatic collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies was ...