Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" —scientifically known as novae —are currently visible to the naked ...

Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

As of Wednesday, July 2, the moon phase is First Quarter. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, 48% of the moon will be ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in 1964 from Cape Canaveral ...

L3Harris in Rochester played a pivotal role in building the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s massive secondary mirror, now part of the world’s most advanced sky-survey telescope.

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...