The summer solstice marks the start of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year. Here we explore when the summer ...

"With ALMA, we can now see the atmosphere of a dying star with a level of clarity in a similar way to what we do for the sun.

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

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

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

A New Mexico college campus is working towards having its own astronomy center and it’s not just a place to gaze at the stars ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Subjects including linguistics, international studies and human-centered design and engineering all halted taking ...

One of the best meteor showers of the year, the Geminid meteor shower, is here. The star fall event peaks Saturday night, Dec ...

Bloemfontein could become South Africa’s top astro-tourism spot, using clear skies, observatories and planetariums to draw ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...