Standing in front of a giant projected bar graph, he solemnly explained the possible fate of the world's most powerful eye on ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun’s surface, revealing ultra-fine bright and ...

“Because the night belongs to…”—well, sorry lovers. With noctourism (also called astrotourism) on meteoric rise, it may be ...

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: ...

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Until now, the inner Solar System looked like a mostly charted neighborhood. Astronomers tracked thousands of near‑Earth ...

Text and photos by Michael J. Meyer Anyone who has visited Ocracoke Island knows how special it is: from stunning sunsets to magnificent views of the Milky Way on a moonless night after a cold ...

The team observed two merging galaxies and discovered that the energy from a quasar is actively transforming the gas within its companion galaxy, thereby dictating whether new stars can form.

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The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

Following a multimillion-dollar expansion program in recent times, sudden harsh science cuts are challenging America’s ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...