September’s superb nocturnal sights are redoubled this year with an extravagant bestowal of stunning beauties wedded to a ...

Seeing the invisible is not magic it’s engineering, one astronomer said when the James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, presented its deepest-ever gaze at the Hubble Ultra Deep ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

As light pollution threatens our view of the stars the world over, the annual Dark Sky photography contest reminds us of the ...

Using two telescopes, scientists were able to pinpoint the location of the fleeting phenomenon with surprising accuracy ...

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

As the temperature dropped, the vast night sky became a stage for distant planets and the steady glow of thousands of stars.

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

The brightest fast radio burst (FRB) on record has been observed with unprecedented precision thanks to recent upgrades to ...

Tucked away in the northern reaches of Potter County sits Cherry Springs State Park, a modest 82-acre slice of Pennsylvania wilderness that delivers an astronomical experience unlike anything else ...