Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built in the Southern Hemisphere. There, ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

If anyone thinks that the names given to the various places on the Moon—from craters to mountains, including ranges, seas and ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the morning while it's still dark, just before astronomical twilight, look to the east, and try to see the ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely ...

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered another so-called quasi-moon of Earth, though it’s likely been circling undetected in near space for decades. Dubbed 2025 PN7, this mini moon is actually an ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

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 ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

A team of Pennsylvania State University researchers has a unique take on mysterious red dots first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

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