Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...

Space travel didn’t begin with rockets — it began with stargazing. From Ptolemaic astronomy to early Chinese rocketry, ...

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

The 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247) is being held Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 and will feature remarkable ...

Owning one of the best telescopes allows you to gaze at the wonder of the night sky in unparalleled detail. Binoculars are great if you want something super small and portable, but if you want to look ...

Sometimes in fantasy fiction, you don’t want to explain something that seems inexplicable, so you throw your hands up and say, “A wizard did it.” Sometimes in astronomy, instead of a wizard, the ...

With their extremely strong magnetic fields, magnetars have long been considered the prime culprit capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy known as fast radio bursts. The recent burst, ...