On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...

Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 ...

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10 ...

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...