An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

It’s one of the most famous stars in the night sky. If you grew up with stories about navigation, camping, […] ...

Chinese astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system designated IGR J19294+1816. As a result, they discovered multiple X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations in this source. The finding was reported in ...

It won’t be long before we hear the TV meteorologist tell us we’re in the “dog days of summer” while offering no explanation whatsoever. If you’re like ...

The Zingularity framework for Bayesian artificial neural networks, Astronomy & Astrophysics. ... First evidence of precession in ultraluminous accretion disks. Oct 2, 2024.

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly It’s 2:30 a.m. local daylight time on June 1 before the next planet arrives on the nighttime scene, when Saturn rises in the east.

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and face east.There, you’ll spot Venus, sometimes called Earth’s sister planet. You won’t have ...

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse." ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. ... Co-precession of a curved jet and compact accretion disk in M87.