News

A full moon is slated for Sept. 7, but there are other celestial events occurring this month. More on viewing Saturn at its ...
A jaw-dropping new cosmic picture shows a stellar nursery of newborn stars. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...
Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) caught one of these protoplanetary disks and its young star in a edge-on view ...
A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...
An international team of astronomers has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet. Detected at an early stage of ...
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...
Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.
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.
Our grasp of how stars rotate is "insufficient," with implications on our ability to understand the causes of phenomena on the sun like solar flares and coronal mass ejections that cause aurora ...
New models reveal how convection in a star’s core generates waves that change its light — and how they might sound if we could hear them.
Touch the Stars is like an introductory astronomy book that would be good for, you know, anyone who is age eight and up, because it has all sorts of typical astronomy images.