This past year, we’ve been blessed with a heavenly host of celestial phenomena, and the entrants of the ZWO Astronomy ...

As the glimmer of June’s full Strawberry Moon fades into the night, darker evenings allow for a better view of the Milky Way ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...

A dazzling new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope resembles a red, white, and blue sparkler lighting up the night sky.

Astronomers have spent decades mapping the Milky Way, but the galaxy is too vast for anyone to see its full shape from the inside. Distances to its outer spiral arms have therefore relied heavily on ...

Fireworks may not be the only light show this 4th of July weekend (and beyond.) The darkest Arizona skies may deliver ...

Astronomers have revealed new details about the makeup and age of a visiting comet that was born around a distant star. They ...

A researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences is using volunteer scientists to probe the universe for a mysterious type of black hole.

The Gaia mission has allowed researchers to understand the motions of stars like never before, even revealing possible interactions between our solar system and nearby stars. Planetary Science ...