The Hubble Space Telescope is suddenly facing a much shorter future than many astronomers expected, with new modeling ...

Stargazing can stimulate an interest in space in kids and lead to a passion for science. But rural schools often lack the ...

Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive gas planet in a place it should never exist, orbiting one of the smallest stars in the ...

The January 2026 full moon is upon us! Here's what to expect when the "Wolf Moon" prowls over the horizon tonight, kicking ...

A lucky alignment of space- and ground-based telescopes has enabled researchers to nail down the mass of a rogue planet for the first time. Unlike worlds in our Solar System, rogue planets do not ...

You have likely heard Europa described as one of the most promising places to search for life beyond Earth. The icy moon of ...

Located in the hills of Uttarakhand, Pithoragarh is now giving travellers a reason to look up at the night sky. The district has inaugurated its first Astronomical Observatory, set up by the District ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s essential elements through the galaxy may be incomplete. Starlight pushing on gra ...

What is the origin of the letters used in star classification? Why didn't astronomers use ABCD? J. HaldimanChicago, Illinois ...

Capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This image of the black hole at the center of the nearby galaxy M87 reveals how gravitation affects the ...