As the Qixi Festival approaches on August 29, it’s essential to explore the poignant tale of the Cowherd and the Weaver, two celestial figures separated by the vastness of the universe. This article ...

A groundbreaking study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of ...

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.

AI helped astronomers detect rare supernova SN 2023zkd in real time, reshaping astronomy and unlocking new frontiers in space exploration.

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

A shooting star streaks across the Milky Way's luminous arm, its brilliant trail dissolving into the velvet darkness that ...

Other good stops for stargazing are on Palomar Mountain, “especially going down East Grade Road and overlooking Lake Henshaw.

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...