Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars. But for sheer ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

A recent astronomical discovery is revolutionizing our understanding of spiral galaxies. A giant spiral galaxy, located ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

It's the Cosmic Cafe, a seasonal sandwiches-and-more spot located at Mt. Wilson Observatory. By "seasonal" we simply mean ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila.

New observations upended scientists' standing hypothesis about how a star would engulf a planet, causing its demise.

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.