A reddish star is about to pass through a "beehive" of stars. That "star" is actually one of Earth's planetary neighbors.

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you look. But tonight, a ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle surrounding you on the horizon, divide it into 360 little bits, ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

To take a look at the comet yourself, you’ll want to head outside just before dawn and look toward the northeast horizon.

Two groups in Kolkata related to astronomy have created what they claim to be the largest handmade telescope in the city — a 14.5-inch f/5 Dobsonian that is low-cost, powerful, and easy to handle.

A Horizon City teen was arrested for allegedly making a threat to "shoot up the school." The teen claimed the threat, which included a photo of the teen holding what appeared to be a weapon ...