A team of solar physicists has released a new study shedding light on the fine-scale structure of the sun's surface. Using ...

Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool.

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

Scientists reveal the clearest images of the Sun’s corona using a new adaptive optics system, opening new paths for solar ...

At the American Museum of Natural History in New York, I had the pleasure of experiencing both at the same time.

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and face east. There, you’ll ...

Astronomers have captured the Sun's corona in astonishing detail, revealing mesmerizing features like coronal rain — all in ...

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

Astronomers have revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a 50/50 chance of colliding with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda ...

The Milky Way now only has a two per cent chance of colliding with its nearest galaxy neighbour, according to new research ...