With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

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Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

On September 11, China's Maritime Safety Administration issued navigational warnings for two live-fire areas in the southern ...

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In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper ...

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Videos on social media appear to capture a fireball being intercepted by a bright light in the sky, resulting in an instant ...

The James Webb Space Telescope cannot observe Earth directly. It is too bright and could damage the telescope. However, ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

The autumn night sky in Ireland is an observer's treasure-trove and the first celestial event of the season arrives on September 7 with a lunar eclipse and blood moon ...