After briefly escaping from Earth's view during a (very) close approach to the sun on Oct. 30, Comet 3I/ATLAS can finally be ...

Long before GPS, explorers used the stars to cross oceans and deserts. Here’s how they turned the night sky into a ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...

The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

The bright city lights make it hard to see stars in LA. Sure, you see lots of celebrities — we’re not talking about those ...

I'm fascinated by Wolf-Rayet stars and want to know more about them. Are some of them observable with a small (4-inch) ...

MacArthur Fellow Kareem El-Badry is redefining how we understand the cosmos, uncovering black holes, decoding the ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest star.

The nights of Oct. 20 and 21 mark the peak of the Orionid Meteor shower (as in, stay up late Monday and Tuesday nights). This annual event occurs when the Earth revolves into a stream of material left ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.