Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust ...

Born on Aug. 26, 1918, in West Virginia, Katherine Goble Johnson showed exceptional aptitude for mathematics from an early ...

Asteroid 6 Hebe is now at opposition in Aquarius. It is visible all night, best seen shortly after midnight.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of August 26 and observe the ...

SpaceX Starship launch delay pushes the 10th test flight. Get details on the scrub, a Blue Origin delay, and a recap of last ...

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

A thin crescent Moon appears in the evening sky, visible for a short time after sunset in the constellation Virgo, near Mars ...

Today's New Moon is also called a Black Moon, as it is the third in a string of four New Moons in a single astronomical ...

Using AI, astronomers discover a new type of supernova, SN 2023zkd, the strongest evidence yet of a dying star being ...

A century from now, a pair of spacecraft might boldly go where no human-made object has gone before: a black hole. Here's how ...

Targeted SETI approach listens for alien radio 'spillover' during planetary alignments, using Earth's deep space ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.