Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered ...

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

The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's ...

Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

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

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

Sporting the world’s largest digital camera, the new telescope is poised to help solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Skywatchers in eastern Türkiye's Van gathered at the 2,600-meter-high Alandeşt Plateau to witness the Perseid meteor shower, ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...

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.

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

IF summer holiday boredom is setting in, the answer could be written in the stars. Astronomy is growing in popularity across the UK, with retailer Argos reporting sales of telescopes and ...