The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

In 2017 astronomers detected something extraordinary: the first known object from another star system passing through our solar system. Named ‘Oumuamua, this mysterious visitor traveled at incredible ...

When Ukrainian forces retook the site of the Braude Radio Astronomy Observatory in September 2022 after forcing a Russian ...

Introduction to Astronomy is a college class usually filled with excitement and a lot of questions about outer space. Questions like: What are black holes? Are there planets out there that are ...

Astronomy professor Karin Öberg will serve as Harvard’s next senior vice provost for faculty, coordinating faculty ...

The renowned physicist, mathematician, and philosopher would later reject the ideas presented in this very book.

SpaceX's plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers, who say the satellite streaks caused by the proposed constellation would severely impair observations.