The SPHEREx mission will image 1 billion galaxies, 100 million stars, and 10,000 asteroids – and help to answer some of the biggest scientific mysteries.

The Einstein Probe, using its innovative lobster-eye X-ray telescope, has captured an ultra-rare celestial event — a bright X ...

C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M ...

An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target.

Staunton River State Park is thrilled to announce its upcoming Spring Star Party, sponsored by the Chapel Hill Astronomical ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

Beautifully captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this image shows interstellar gas and dust lit up by a dead ...

Stark residents will be able to view a total lunar eclipse March 13-14, but won't see the solar one a few weeks later.

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...