Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known ...

Photographs from astronaut Dave Scott's three space missions are on now on display at the Bo Bartlett Center in Columbus, Georgia through Aug. 2, 2025. The exhibition, titled "Images from Space that ...

A photograph of the Milky Way taken on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea by Polish astrophotographer Marzena Rogozińska has been named ...

Astronomy Space photo of the week: Cotton candy clouds shine in one of Hubble's most beautiful images ever Astronomy Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told Newsweek.

Photographs taken through the great telescope at California’s Lick Observatory, and released last week, reveal the moon’s pockmarked crust in astonishing detail (see cut). Forbidding mountains ...

Photographers are encouraged to explore the night sky for Ireland's astrophotography competition. Enter by June 4th, 2025!

the 16th Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has released its stunning shortlisted finalists ahead of winners being announced on September 12. In 2024, some 3,500 photographs were ...

In taking celestial photographs the telescope is used as ... Sirius—as that wonderful aid to physical astronomy, the spectroscope, reveals—is shooting through space at the rate of a thousand ...

Smithsonian STARS— Scientists Taking Astronomy to Rural Schools— aims to bridge gaps in access to hands-on STEM learning opportunities for children in rural and tribal nation schools by providing a ...

Supported by Photographs by Nicholas J. R. White Text by Kat Hill Rum, a diamond-shaped island off the western coast of Scotland, is home to 40 people. Most of the island — 40 square miles of ...