Are monoculars suitable for astronomy? The simple answer is yes, but with a few limitations that you should be aware of ...

The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this ...

A newly restored 17th-century map of the stars and planets is going on display for the first time in England. As one of only ...

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...

Sunday, November 24 Venus lingers long after sunset in the last weeks of the month, now setting nearly three hours after the ...

WOH G64 is 2,000 times the size of the sun and is 160,000 light-years distant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

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Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...

Edwin Hubble, a renowned astronomer, revolutionized our understanding of the universe. He proved the existence of galaxies ...

In an article published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, new evidence suggests how supermassive black holes, with ...

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...