Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

See the winners of the largest astronomy photo competition, selected from more than 5,800 entries sent in from more than 60 ...

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Columnist John Breunig gets starry-eyed taking a tour of the new Planetarium & Astronomy Center at the Stamford Museum & ...

Look Up! Join the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, Inc. to celebrate National Astronomy Day and the 35th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with an evening observation session ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

Telescopes on the National Mall tonight will give people a chance to see the stars and experience the largest astronomy outreach event in the United States.

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Oconee County resident Susan Vizurraga has written an historical fiction novel on a little-known female astronomer.

From September 16 to 17, the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum series event "Looking Up at the Stars, Creating the Future — The ...