The veteran Vatican astronomer, born in Detroit, recalled that Pope John Paul II once described faith and reason 'as the two ...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role ...

A new adaptive optics system reveals stunning, ultra-sharp views of the Sun’s corona—offering an unprecedented look at solar ...

This morning, set your sights on the first planetary nebula ever discovered: M27, the Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula.

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Invisible radiation leaking out of private satellites, like SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers' ...

CHP officers, then sheriff’s deputies were called over concerns about what turned out to be the “Astronomy Night” event — the ...

A fortunate dozen spent a night with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope, happy to be gazing at some great deep-sky ...

One of the ENTs studied in this work, named Gaia18cdj, released 25 times more energy than the most powerful supernova on ...

The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning ...