The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.

IT starts with a glimmer in the sky – just a pinprick of light, barely distinguishable from the stars. But this is no distant ...

As a part-time writer, Zhu dedicated two to three hours daily to writing whenever he found time outside his busy schedule.

During solar storms and other sun-related events, the oval expands southward into the Upper Midwest, bringing the northern lights to skywatchers at lower latitudes. Rarely does it sit directly over us ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

The researchers believe that when this supernova exploded, it sent cosmic rays toward Earth for about 100,000 years. These ...

NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...

SpaceX launched a stack of 23 Starlink satellites from Florida this morning, Feb. 21, adding to the company's growing ...

Scientists have an expansive network of space- and ground-based observatories, such as the Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and others, available to monitor the ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

The term "planetary parade" describes when multiple planets gather on one side of the Sun simultaneously. While planets won't ...

On an astrotourism trip like Gorov's, celestial objects take center stage. More travelers are seeking out the feeling of awe ...