New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

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 ...

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

A detailed infrared view of the Galactic Center region of our Milky Way Galaxy. These infrared images are sensitive to the ...

“Because the night belongs to…”—well, sorry lovers. With noctourism (also called astrotourism) on meteoric rise, it may be ...

Although the astronomers royal post is largely honorary today, it has long been a title awarded to the most prominent ...

When June’s full moon rises Tuesday night, it will be at its lowest spot in a 37-year span, and it won't drop this low again ...

The breakthrough came using a cutting-edge observational method that detects unseen planets via subtle deviations in their ...

In 1408, Chinese astronomers and court officials observed an especially bright object in the sky that appeared for about ten ...

The start of June marked meteorological summer while astronomical summer starts for the northern hemisphere. It is the ...

WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Bella is slated to make her return on tonight's edition of Monday Night RAW. A recent report has shed light on what the 41-year-old could do on the show.

The last full moon of the spring will peak soon above Kansas, and the forecast calls for clear skies at least one of the days ...