Soon, a flexible octopus-like robot could be completely free of wires or internal electronics. Engineers at Rice University have unveiled a new soft robotic arm controlled by laser beams.

Polaris, which lies roughly 430 light-years from Earth, marks the end of the Little Dipper’s handle. Alternatively, it’s the ...

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

Are either of the Voyager spacecraft capable of taking a picture of our solar system from their current interstellar ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out later in the evening to observe what most observers think is the sky’s most colorful area. Named for the nearby star Rho ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

We've rounded up some of the most often repeated science myths and misconceptions to set the record straight and put you in ...

Pomona, or another liberal-arts college like it, should undertake a bold experiment in low-tech education.

Astronomers have announced the discovery of Extreme Nuclear Transients, slow-motion cosmic blasts brighter than 100 supernovae caused by massive stars near black holes.

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

Today in the history of astronomy, the man who would first suggest Neptune's presence is born.

Even if the Milky Way and Andromeda don’t collide in the next 10 billion years, though, that won’t be the end of the story.