On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the galaxy’s disc, an echo of something mysterious in our galaxy’s ancient past.

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where ...

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

It's great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what's known about ...

Look for the three stars that make up the distinctive formation of Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — shining ...

A much longer sky pattern involves Earth’s 25,720-year precession, the shifting in the direction of our poles. Once in that cycle, Polaris becomes the truest, most prominent pole star. It will reach ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

The comets can be seen from the Northern Hemisphere as their orbits take them through our cosmic backyard. Two such ...

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta featured more than 500 pilots from 41 states and 12 countries that filled the ...