Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

Astronomers have slammed SpaceX and Reflect Orbital plans for unnaturally brightening skies and disrupting ecosystems.

While meteors of this size enter Earth's atmosphere two to three times each year, the odds of them passing over a ...

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you're there? Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Andy Weir, who also penned The Martian, Amazon ...

Russia’s war has left many of Ukraine’s world-class observatories in ruins—but the besieged nation’s astronomers already have plans to rebuild and recover ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest fast radio burst ever detected and traced it to a nearby galaxy using a new network of CHIME Outrigger telescopes. The flash, nicknamed RBFLOAT, lasted only a ...

Why doesn't Astronomy magazine recognize Messier 110? Keith LankfordHarvest, Alabama Amateur astronomers dubbed this object M110 in the 1960s, so we choose not to include it. Charles Messier's list ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Astronomy professor Karin Öberg will serve as Harvard’s next senior vice provost for faculty, coordinating faculty ...

The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...