The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its decade-long survey to scan the entire night sky every three days. To do this, it ...

The "ancient chemical remains of the first stars " may have discovered using the Gemini North telescope, according to NSF's ...

Phosphine has caused quite a stir in the astronomical world lately. That was largely due to its (still hotly debated) ...

Armillary rings emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries during the birth of the scientific revolution and rise of astronomy ...

In a new study, a team of astronomers report that they have captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a red supergiant before it exploded. Using JWST 's powerful infrared vision, the researchers ...

Stars and planets twinkled overhead at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area, but it wasn't during one of the park's astronomy ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

The star originates from a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is around 163,000 light-years away from the ...

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

Learn how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and how astronomers count them.

Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing - not yet, ...