Since we last spoke, researchers at the University of Birmingham have defined the precise shape of a single photon (spoiler: ...

Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

This week on Break It Down, astronomers have taken the first-ever close-up photo of a star outside of the Milky Way, putting ...

“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” ...

The University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library held the event “A Celebration of Celestial Maps Through the Ages." ...

Using four telescopes linked together, astronomers have captured an astonishing image of a huge star more than 160,000 light years away ...

The star’s name is WOH G64, offering rare onomatopoeic satisfaction for sounding exactly like what you might say when you see ...

The first-ever close-up of an extragalactic star looks different than expected and might give a view of what stars look like at the end of their lives.

The aurora in early October followed by the appearance of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS the following week had me thinking about the rare events we observe in astronomy.

Reports carried by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration say 2024 PT5 — a near-earth asteroid about 30 meters ...