Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

Astronomers warn as 1 million AI-powered Starlink satellites rival starlight. Explore how orbiting data centers threaten deep ...

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.

Astronomers have slammed SpaceX and Reflect Orbital plans for unnaturally brightening skies and disrupting ecosystems.

Astronomers using MeerKAT have detected the most distant and powerful "cosmic laser" ever observed, offering new insights ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

Why doesn't Astronomy magazine recognize Messier 110? Keith LankfordHarvest, Alabama Amateur astronomers dubbed this object M110 in the 1960s, so we choose not to include it. Charles Messier's list ...