Grote Reber helped spark decades of interest in radio astronomy in Tasmania when he decided to call the southern state home.

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph an plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton is that kind of place – a celestial treasure perched above Silicon Valley that somehow remains off the radar for many Californians despite being one of the most ...

The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as ...

The Prince George Astronomical Society will be hosting weekend events this fall, providing people the opportunity to learn ...

Ten years after the first gravitational waves were detected, the location and design for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector are being decided ...

A new AI-powered tool has reduced astronomers' workload by 85%—filtering through thousands of data alerts to identify the few ...

Located at a relatively close distance of 41 light years from Earth, the Trappist-1 system has attracted significant ...