The twinkling stars in the night sky are not just beautiful to look at. Their flickering reveals something about the varying temperatures and densities in the layers of Earth's atmosphere, which ...

Astronomers have employed the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) and the MeerKAT radio telescope to observe a ...

On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots like Norway, New Zealand and Nevada, all you have to do is relax and look up.

The United States has quietly pressured Argentina and Chile to halt major Chinese astronomy projects in the Andes, fearing ...

A ninth planet may be tugging at the outer edges of our solar system. Astronomers were studying distant icy objects beyond Neptune. In 2014, astronomers found six Kuiper Belt objects clustered in ...

The “most vocal” Pluto advocate has been the planetary scientist Alan Stern. “Science isn’t about voting,” he said in 2016 of ...

The Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is built around a towering centerpiece: space shuttle Endeavour in its 20-story ...

Using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes, researchers have captured how long it takes for clouds of gas and dust to ...

The Cincinnati Public Library teamed up with astronomer Dean Regas to let patrons check out telescopes. The popular program ...

Dark sky travel is trending fast, with more people booking trips built around stargazing, auroras and clear night skies.

A rare predawn alignment will bring together Mars, Saturn and a thin crescent moon in the eastern sky on May 14, creating a ...