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

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.

According to the most widely accepted cosmological model, the first stars and galaxies began forming around 300-400 million ...

A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an alleged planet killer: a white dwarf that might be the source of ...

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 ...

Mammoth Cave National Park is hosting two upcoming events to highlight the beauty of spring and the night sky. Mammoth Cave National Park’s annual Wildflower Day celebration and a Mammoth Cave Star ...

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

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

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

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

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...