Dark clouds swirl across a star-speckled sky as the Milky Way stretches above La Silla Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert.

The spectacular night-time display can help ground-based telescopes rival their space counterparts in accurate observations.

From the Crab Nebula to the Orion Nebula, these 10 winter deep-sky objects are easy to find and perfect targets for small ...

The spectra obtained by NASA's SPHEREx revealed signatures of water, methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide.

Discover this year's most exciting new astronomy products selected by Astronomy's contributing editor and gear guru, Phil ...

Scientists believe there are planets outside our solar system where life is even more abundant and sustainable.

The speed of an asteroid's spin can tell astronomers a surprising amount about what it is made of. However, existing ...

Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed an ancient galaxy cluster with an unexpectedly dense concentration of dark ...

Astronomers have discovered that a scorching-hot planet 320 light-years away shares a striking chemical similarity with its ...

How Kimberly Guilfoyle lost her ambassadorship.

New restaurants, private oyster cruises, L.L.Bean’s $50 million refit and the harvest rituals that make it worth driving from ...