Rubin’s completion converged with technological advancements that are poised to spread the data it produces far and wide to ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

Led by the charismatic and knowledgeable guide Irwin, Breaking Travel News reporter Mark Hakansson and a small group of ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

What we are seeing when looking at the Milky Way is the combined light of vast numbers of stars located thousands of light years from our Solar System. The brighter planets are now all early morning ...

and our solar system officially has only eight planets. Gone but not forgotten. Image from Memebase. The only thing they knew was that the energy radiating off this wave was 500 times stronger than ...

The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature ’s photo team.

Present-day disk galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded thin disk of stars. For instance, our ...

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, ...

We all have that one friend who think they're a whizz when it comes to all things space. They have astronomical knowledge ...