Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

The "music" of starquakes—enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

Californians can glimpse up to 15 meteors each hour under cloudless skies while the Lyrid meteor shower is underway. The ...

The public is invited to the free celebration from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Como Park Elementary School at 780 Wheelock Parkway West on April 17.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...

A waxing Moon brightens the sky as we catch our last looks at Uranus and view Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars in the sky ...

NASA said the telescope is expected to collect data on more than 450 million galaxies and more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way by surveying the entire sky in 102 infrared wavelengths.

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...