A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Astrotourism is coming to Canada, thanks to an ambitious plan for a chain of six dark-sky sites along 100 miles of the ...

Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

The Adirondack region is taking steps to preserve its dark night skies, with a proposed bill aiming to reduce light pollution ...