A New Mexico college campus is working towards having its own astronomy center and it’s not just a place to gaze at the stars ...

The Geminids peak annually in mid-December, when Earth passes through a dense trail of cosmic dust left behind by the ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Meteors from the Geminid shower can be colorful, with hues ranging from green to purple and amber. And sometimes they streak ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected unexpected high-energy ultraviolet radiation around five ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

Stargazers rejoice! Dec. 4 marks the start of the annual Geminid meteor shower, as Earth passes through the trail of debris ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...