Those looking up last night already saw a beautiful show as the near-full moon rose in clear skies. Tonight is slightly ...

In a star’s core, fusion takes terrific temperature and pressure that is provided by the crushing gravity of the star’s ...

When the Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak, it will be spring’s first chance to see shooting stars. The Lyrids have ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could be called dwarf planets because of their ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and beautiful, star-studded Milky Way.

Higher up, you’ll find Mars close to the twin stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux: the Moon is very close to the Red Planet on ...

See the pint-sized Pink Moon this week.

"Discovering that the two stars are separated by just 1/60th of the Earth-Sun ... our planet will likely have been long ago ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

The idea of a moon-based facility started looking much ... dynamo activity that drives the magnetic activity of the sun and other stars, according to Carpenter. "Our proposed primary study of ...