A Texas Tech Assistant Astronomy Professor, Elias Aydi, along with other astronomers, used a cutting-edge technique to ...

Veteran skywatchers say looking at the night sky is fun, educational and even awe-inspiring. The celestial views won't be anywhere near as crisp and detailed as those captured by the Hubble Space ...

New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...

"Black moon" has many confusing definitions in astronomy, witchcraft and pop culture No, that weird term in your social media feeds isn’t a Norwegian metal band’s new album. A rare lunar event called ...

GREGOR's high-resolution FAST IMAGER happened to scan the sunspots in active region NOAA 14274 just 30 minutes before the emission of an X1.2 solar flare, giving researchers an unprecedented view of ...

Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it Telescope project managers are rewriting scheduling programs to avoid the new ...

Pluto hogs the spotlight in the continuing scientific debate over what is and what is not a planet, but a less conspicuous argument rages on about the planetary status of massive objects outside our ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured clear, detailed images of two stars explosions just days after their eruption.

The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic ...