ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Astronomers call the phenomenon a “meteor storm,” which typically delivers at least 1,000 meteors per hour, 10 times as much as even the most prolific meteor showers. On rare occasions, a meteor storm ...

According to NASA, the Leonids this year were particularly swift, hurtling at 44 miles per second, and are named for their apparent radiant point in the constellation Leo. Every 33 years or so, the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University faculty member has made a celestial discovery in Starkville: the first ...

Explore Nevada’s top stargazing spots, from remote desert landscapes to dark sky parks, perfect for travelers seeking ...

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could ...

Researchers are puzzled as to how the dwarf galaxy NGC 6789 continues to make new stars, despite being stuck in the ...

Astronomers are uncovering new ways to study the universe’s first stars, objects too distant and faint to observe directly, by examining the ancient 21-centimeter radio signal left behind by hydrogen ...

A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...

Over the course of billions of years, the universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion of the universe, we ...