This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

A Congressional hearing recently looked at a mysterious orb that a U.S. military missile seemed to bounce off in midair.

Countless stars in the Milky Way are being raised and lowered by a gigantic wave. This was discovered using data from the ...

Have telescope, will travel, sometimes really far. The University of Virginia Occultation Group, astronomy undergraduates who observe and track asteroids and small planets, make most of their ...

Tomorrow evening will see Saturn and a waxing gibbous moon rising together in the southeast at sunset. Saturn will be bright ...

The winners of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award have been revealed, showcasing a spectacular selection of night sky images that reveal the majesty of ancient galaxies, nebulas, ...

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Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week Astronomy James Webb telescope's ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks reacting in a fiery burst of stellar gas and dust upon meeting solar winds. © Dan Bartlett When a comet meets solar winds, its nuclear coma—a ...

Luna 2, launched by the Soviet Union in September 1959, achieved the first human-made object impact on a celestial body other than Earth (the Moon). The mission's journey to the Moon lasted ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of its imminent, violent end." Betelgeuse may have competition for the most ...