The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...

When stars like the Sun die, they go through a phase of rapid ... leaving behind a remnant called a white dwarf. I am a professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, my ...

Saudi Arabia’s AlUla gains global spotlight as NASA names its meteor image Astronomy Picture of the Day for its pristine night skies ...

The nights surrounding Aug. 29 are a great time to spot the stars of the famous 'Summer Triangle' asterism, bisected by the glowing band of the Milky Way, with an early-setting crescent moon providing ...

Bays Mountain Park introduces "Big Astronomy," a new planetarium show focusing on southern hemisphere's observatories.

German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Wild Duck Cluster in 1681. Messier made it his 11th catalog entry May 30, 1764, so observers usually call it M11.

A new ultra-detailed map of the Sculptor Galaxy exposes stellar life and hidden structures, offering new insights into how small-scale processes influence entire galaxies. Astronomers have unveiled a ...

The race for space internet is colliding with humanity’s oldest science.

This faint comet requires a large scope, but its proximity to a 5th-magnitude star in Corona Borealis will help you find it.

Phillips and his wife Carolina Esswein, 54, CEO of a power services utility company, sold that house to move to Wilmington, Delaware, but still reminisce about the bliss of seeing meteor showers and ...

The powerful signal, FRB 20250316A, was first spotted in March by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, a radio telescope in British Columbia. The burst lasted less than ...

The Very Large Telescope view on the left shows the rings in the protoplanetary disk and the planet in yellow. Views from the Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona ...