In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and view brilliant Venus. The ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Late April brings the Lyrid meteor shower, which starts on the 14th and will peak April 22. The best time to observe is after ...

In an era when the James Webb Space Telescope is imaging objects from the beginnings of the universe billions of light years ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern ...

Residents visited the Discovery Park of America in Union City for a special Astronomy Night.  Earlier today, Dr. Lionel Crews from the University of Tennessee at Martin’s Astronomy Department joined ...

Comets, which are composed of ice, frozen gas, dust and rocky material, are believed to be relics of the early solar system.

Apr. 16, 2025 — Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the ...