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 ...

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

Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The ...

A record-breaking image of the Milky Way's core has just been released, and what scientists found inside is unlike anything seen before.

Bill Murphy became interested in the night sky as a kid in the 1960s, as man was attempting to land on the moon.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

Impey, Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, will receive the Lewis Thomas ...

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.

Space lovers in Northern California got to enjoy a total lunar eclipse overnight Tuesday. The moon was a rusty shade of red ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

When Ukrainian forces retook the site of the Braude Radio Astronomy Observatory in September 2022 after forcing a Russian ...