But so did the fact that the astronomers who built the observatory were all amateurs, men with day jobs who just loved to stargaze and tinker. "It's probably one of the most compelling ...

While we will not be around to see the death of our sun, UAE astronomers have captured the Medusa Nebula, formed after the explosion of a star close to the mass of our sun. Stay up to date with ...

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the one opportunity, living in the middle of nowhere ... I can be part of this journey that humankind is on," recalls University of Washington astronomer James Davenport. "It was amazing." Now an ...

As US astronomers cheer the completion of the state-of-the-art project to rejuvenate the iconic Hale Telescope, one key collaborator is locked out of the celebrations and banned from exporting to ...

Astronomers have detected winds howling at about 20,500 miles per hour on this large gaseous planet, located in our Milky Way galaxy approximately 520 light-years from Earth in a tight orbit ...

At first, you might not notice anything at all. But look again. For the next month, the planets are aligned. Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will all be in an (almost) straight ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

Two strange, icy objects in our galaxy that look unlike anything astronomers have ever seen could be an entirely new kind of star. In 2021, Takashi Shimonishi at Niigata University in Japan and ...

Astronomers say a close encounter with a mysterious—and massive—interstellar object early in our solar system’s history could explain the current orbits of several of Earth’s largest planetary ...