The rate of human-produced light is increasing in the night sky by as much as 10% per year, making it difficult for astronomers to study the night sky.

The James Webb telescope's 100-hour reexamination of one of Hubble's most iconic extragalactic images reveals extraordinary ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected a "high-energy neutrino emission from within the Milky Way," according to AAAS.

This new measurement suggests some comets — particularly those such as 12P/Pons-Brooks — could indeed have delivered water, and possibly other life-essential elements, to a young Earth.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...

Like Karla Coreil, who saw a spectacular shooting star in 2014 while kayaking at night in the Vieques bioluminescent bay in ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will have 13 months to develop a low-orbit telescope that will be part of a space ...

The Inouye Solar Telescope captured magnetic, silk-like "stripes" on the solar surface called photospheric striations.

On the evening of August 11, stargazers can observe a stunning close encounter between Saturn, the ringed planet, and our ...

Faint Bridge of Stars Reveals Rare Galactic Merger Astronomers have created one of the most detailed views ever captured of a ...

Although August's full moon, known as the Sturgeon Moon, has peaked, it will still appear full to people who missed it over ...