On November 28, 1967, astronomers found the first pulsar. A pulsar is a super-dense star that rotates super fast. As the ...

Think you know your constellations? See how many star groups you can name in 10 minutes and try to top the leaderboard.

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While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...

Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will pass within 3.83 million miles of the surface of the sun on Dec. 24, and multiple planets will ...

We see Moana hold her hand up against the dusk horizon and the constellation Orion. Armed with a memorized star map, this simple act finds her direction and latitude. No mater where you are on Earth, ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

First observed in 1936, FU Orionis became a hundred times brighter in months and has remained a unique object of study.

Hundreds of defunct satellites plunge toward Earth every year. Scientists are studying how the chemical stew left in their wake impacts the atmosphere.

Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry ...

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