Oconee County resident Susan Vizurraga has written an historical fiction novel on a little-known female astronomer.

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

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

Look Up! Join the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, Inc. to celebrate National Astronomy Day and the 35th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with an evening observation session ...

Monday is the first day of Fall for us in the northern hemisphere. It is the first day where there will be more darkness than ...

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

Astronomy Ireland is setting up giant telescopes in anticipation of “an extremely rare view” of Saturn, which only occurs ...

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched into a long oval. Its unusual orbit makes the system very rare ...

As the cycle nears its end, the upcoming New Moon on September 21 will mark a fresh beginning, both in astronomical terms and in cultural interpretations of time and energy.

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...