Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting ...

The deeper we look into space, the stranger it becomes. Astronomers are discovering objects and signals that challenge what ...

A visitor from another star system is creating excitement in the astronomy community. The comet 3I/ATLAS which was first spotted in July 2025 contains chemical clues that scientists can use to ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical clue that could reveal how planets and icy bodies form around other stars.

David Allred will present 'Under One Sky' at the ORION program, exploring how astronomy connects communities.

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...

Space scientist Maggie Aderin talks telescopes, neurodiversity and being underestimated with Rowan Hooper on the New ...

The ancient tradition of watching the night sky to guide farming resumed on Thursday in Maldrogungkar county in Lhasa, Xizang autonomous region, as locals gathered at the Dakpo Observatory to mark the ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form.