Born on July 25, 1920, Chushiro Hayashi graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in physics in 1942. After World ...

Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

Betelgeuse companion discovery with Gemini North resolves century-old mystery and opens new doors in red supergiant research ...

Perseus Moving Group, also known as the Alpha Persei Cluster, is a cluster of 500 stars, offering a glimpse of our Sun’s ...

Today in the history of astronomy, the first people to walk on the Moon splashdown back on Earth.

New Moon means dark skies — and your chance to try photographing interstellar interloper 3I/ATLAS moving against the ...

Astronomers have found 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite, a rare sednoid with a unique orbit that challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis.

During the Planck era, the universe was so small that our laws of physics break down. To dive deeper back in time, we’ll need new scientific language.

Maffei 1 and 2 are faint, dust-obscured galaxies near the Milky Way—discovered in 1967 and challenging targets for deep-sky ...

Catch the solar system’s largest planet satellite sharing the constellation Gemini the Twins with our Moon this morning ...

One amateur astronomer is on a quest to identify every object in the catalog of Lynds’ dark nebulae. Tag along for the ...

The center of our galaxy is visible overnight on summer evenings, just off the tip of the Sagittarius Teapot’s spout in the ...