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.

When observing the night sky, it's easy to forget that every point of twinkling light is a star at some point in its life ...

“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 ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

Texas is now headquarters for a number of impressive space commerce companies, including Firefly in Cedar Park, near Austin, and Intuitive Machines, Axiom Space and Franklin Chang-Diaz’s ambitious ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...