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 ...

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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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...