The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.

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

The Friday before this one, I had a fantastic opportunity to serve as resident astronomer for the evening at Leonardo’s Children’s Museum’s Milky Way Mixer.

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

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

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 ...

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory have revealed a photograph showing a close-up image of star WHO G64, a red supergiant.

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding ...

WOH G64 is a red supergiant 160,000 light-years from Earth demonstrating erratic behavior over the last decade ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light. These bright emissions, which appear to peak on a regular cycle, may be ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars? When ...

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...