Discover how astronomers use stellar parallax to navigate spacecraft in deep space without relying on Earth-based beacons.

ESA's Gaia mission ends its tenure—creating the most comprehensive and precise 3D map of Milky Way Galaxy In March 2025, the Gaia mission stopped collecting data from space. The influence of this ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, a group of European astronomers came together to form an association without precedent in the history of astronomy. Informally known as the Celestial Police (in ...

PEAK is a game of survival and teamwork in harsh conditions, so naturally there is a badge available focused exclusively on staring at the desert sun. It isn't especially hard to get, but it's easy to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a planet-forming disk shockingly rich in carbon dioxide but nearly devoid of water, upending traditional theories of planetary chemistry ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

Astronomy magazine's Dave Eicher encourages early morning sky observation during the first week of September. The observation focuses on the close visual proximity of the planet Venus and the Beehive ...

From ancient civilizations charting the stars to modern-day horoscopes guiding daily decisions, our relationship with the cosmos is as complex as it is enduring. But how well do you really know the ...

"Webb was the key that made it happen." A team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope has found tiny dust particles traveling far from their home galaxy, surviving a perilous journey ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an "extremely stripped supernova." In a paper published today in Nature, Steve Schulze of ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. Scientists now warn the planet could one day face the same catastrophic fate. Macron’s government ...