The McDonald Observatory's Dark Skies Initiative, successful in West Texas, is now expanding to New Mexico to combat artificial sky brightness.

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

This breakthrough builds on more than a decade of research using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, along with several powerful ground-based observatories.

On February 16, 1948, the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus. This was the fifth moon to be discovered at Uranus, but astronomers have found 27 by now. When ...

Read Spectroscopic data collected from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is overlayed on an image of the Phoenix cluster that ...

Experts recommend looking toward the southwest horizon to see the planets. You can see six planets for most of the month with a chance for a bonus from Mercury at the end of February.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...

The desert city in southern Arizona is a sanctuary for stargazers—and now it's even easier for visitors to explore.

A new photography book showcases idiosyncratic locations, including a “ski-through” window in Sweden, and local menu offerings that some see as an entry point into an unfamiliar cuisine.

Hubble introduced a new, larger perspective when he used the largest telescope in the world at the time, the 2.5-metre Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, to precisely ...

McDonald's will once again shake up its menu next month with four new items, including a "never-before-seen" drink. The high street fast food chain will be switching up its menu on February 12 by ...