A strange cosmic object known as the "Blinking Unicorn" has captured the attention of astronomers. It was discovered emitting ...

Stargazing in New Jersey offers magical moments under the night sky, with High Point State Park and Jenny Jump State Forest ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

Irregular pulsing behavior from an enigmatic star system has physicists scratching their heads—but they’ve got some guesses ...

One amateur astronomer is on a quest to identify every object in the catalog of Lynds’ dark nebulae. Tag along for the journey!

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Stars of all ages and masses emit electromagnetic energy in different ways, and these emissions attract the attention of ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star ...

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.