One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...

Astronomers have recently observed a planet being torn apart by its “zombie” white dwarf star, a phenomenon that challenges ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

Comet Lemmon, which gave us a great show in October, is slowly fading and dropping lower in the southwestern sky. When the ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

Stargazers using telescopes should be able to see the object in the predawn sky beginning Nov. 11, according to EarthSky.

Sunrise and sunset • Rises at 7:31 a.m. and sets at 5:59 p.m. on the 1st (daylight saving time) • Rises at 7:03 a.m. and sets ...

When the rings are close to edgewise, they appear less bright, presenting a fine opportunity to observe Saturn’s moons. The brightest, Titan, has a 16-day orbit, and appears farthest east of the ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...