Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...

The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

This famous asterism at the heart of the Strongman is visible in the early-morning sky this month before sunrise.

The celestial object described is an open cluster, NGC 7789, possessing an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and located between 5th-magnitude Sigma Cassiopeiae and 6th-magnitude Rho Cas, known by several ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

At the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, this one held in Phoenix on January 4-8, Andrea Dupree of the Center for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian presented a talk entitled, ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei turned his self-built telescope, which he had recently made improvements to, towards Jupiter. There he noticed three spots of light. Though he first concluded they ...

With the gibbous Moon in Leo, our best bet for observing other targets lies in the western sky this evening. Visible there are the two famous open clusters of Taurus: the Pleiades and Hyades. The ...