For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

The enigma ties in with the American astronomer Edwin Hubble’s discovery nearly a century ago that the universe is expanding.

Known as blue straggler stars, these age-defying celestial objects have mystified astronomers for more than 70 years. "Blue stragglers are anomalously massive core hydrogen-burning stars that, ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 30The Moon passes 4° north of Jupiter this evening at 9 P.M. EST. The pair is visible most of the night in the central region of ...

India's diverse geography from high-altitude cold deserts to vast salt flats offers some of the most pristine "Dark Sky" ...

Earth's moon is both the brightest and the largest object in the night sky, in terms of apparent size, making it a ...

The solution to a persistent astronomical question that has puzzled scientists for half a century has emerged not from direct ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

The northern sky's greatest galaxy gets its familiar name from the northern constellation where it resides, Andromeda the ...

Peter Aleshire’s article about Meteor Crater, published in the Jan. 16 Independent, combined in my mind with an article I wrote that was published on Nov. 22, 2024 about the ...

While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.