Several years ago, I decided to drive somewhere dark enough to see the Milky Way with the naked eye. Something had rekindled ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a sign of water vapor in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet, according to a NASA ...

The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over. With all the excitement surrounding the prospect of humans returning to the Moon, both ...

Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life is on Earth? Couldn’t there be totally different ...

One of the world’s most famous astronomical clocks looms over a side street in the old city of Prague, with a complex ...

This week, early risers can look for Mars and Saturn on parade with a slim crescent Moon.

Oumuamua was discovered in 2017 and was determined to be the first object ever seen inside the solar system that had come ...

Mathematics can help us imagine the cosmos around us in new ways and pave the path to new discoveries. In the past quarter ...

June’s pre-dawn sky finds six planets strung along the ecliptic, spanning 72° on the 1st. In order of increasing elongation ...

The parade of planets starts as two worlds come close and the Moon moves on down the line in the sky this week.

An astrophysicist explains how the Chandra X-ray Observatory detects X-rays to produce images of events such as black holes ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This ...