A partial solar eclipse occurs during a new moon when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, blocking a portion of the sun's disk. This phenomenon looks as if the moon is "biting" into the sun ...

Skywatchers are set for the year's last solar eclipse, best viewed from the Southern Hemisphere on September 21, 2025. While ...

For astronomy enthusiasts and stargazers, this week will bring a visual feast as Saturn and Neptune reach their brightest point. According to IFLScience, these two gas giants will be in opposition, ...

NASA has recently transformed sound waves emanating from the Perseus Galaxy Cluster’s black hole into a format perceptible to ...

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

This week in Starwatch, I want you to go sky high to dig for some of the great visual treasures waiting for your eyes. Now ...

A powerful blast of energy detected in March marks the brightest fast radio burst — a mysterious type of outburst from space — observed to date. FRBs, first observed in 2007, are millisecond-long ...

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 ...

Scattered across the cosmos are supervoids—regions so vast and empty they dwarf entire galaxy clusters. These colossal gaps in space challenge what we thought we knew about the structure of the ...

Astronomers might have discovered a galaxy that formed extremely early in the universe, nearly 200 million years before its closest competitor, but they caution there could be other explanations too.

Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, could ...

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...