Planets like Earth take shape by integrating these star ... journey after the demise of the cosmic entity that created them. In galaxies like the Milky Way, which are still actively forming new stars, ...

PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In ...

There's something neat that happens when the full moon is closer to the horizon, and we call it the "moon illusion." ...

The paper argues that the universe will begin to contract after reaching a peak size, before collapsing back to a single ...

Interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered just a week ago and ever since, astronomers across the world have been ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Stargazers can find many locations throughout the country to explore the celestial wonders of the night sky, which serves as ...

Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

Look up some time at the night sky, glinting and humming with all manner of illumination — planes taking off from or ...

Now the diameter of the known universe can be described as 558 billion trillion miles (that’s 558 followed by 21 zeros) or 28 gigaparsecs. If you’re like most astronomers, I’m pretty sure which size ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...