Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

A groundbreaking discovery in the field of exoplanet research has revealed a fascinating new planet orbiting a star just 124 ...

Today in the history of astronomy, the first photo of Earth by a satellite is taken.

Astronomers report that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA) has discovered traces of oxygen in the very ...

A cosmic jet aimed at Earth reveals how blazars hurl particles to extreme energies, solving a long-standing mystery.

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of ...

A quick and engaging overview of Earth Science, the multidisciplinary field that studies our planet and its place in the universe. Earth Science is divided into three main areas of study: astronomy, ...

NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp ...

About 7.4 billion light-years away, a bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out jets of plasma is ...

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

Avi Loeb, the chair of the astronomy department at Harvard, has suggested that a Manhattan-sized interstellar object, which has been discovered speeding through our cosmic neighborhood, could have an ...

Try these free astronomy apps The following free astronomy apps can help ... The stellar burst, called a nova, will make it seem as if a new star is shining down on Earth. It won't stick around ...