Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our ...

For two decades, astronomers have wondered how supermassive black holes could exist less than a billion years after the Big ...

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...

Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

The discovery of stars with their outer layers of hydrogen stripped by companions fills a glaring hole in our understanding of supernovas and binary systems with colliding neutron stars. When you ...

For many years now, our magazine has held a wonderful public star party event in what could be termed the capital of astronomy in the United States, Tucson, Arizona. The public is welcome at this ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

A scientist has identified a possible astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem, as described in the Bible ...

And the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association holds- free "star parties" for schools and other opportunities for the public to scan the night sky through members' telescopes. Take an orbit around this ...