Discovering new black holes is no easy feat — where do you even begin to look? New data and techniques help us get closer ...

The evening sky loses its last planet early in May, shifting the attention of planetary observers to the morning.

This week, early risers can watch as a beautiful line of planets parades past the Moon. With Mercury’s return, the swift ...

Simulations show that a slow, shallow impact formed the western half of Pluto's heart - and also shed light on the dwarf ...

As the Moon rises early in the morning, Mars and Neptune meet in a conjunction and we gear up for the Eta Aquariids in the ...

Ancient Egyptians may have associated the Milky Way with the sky goddess Nut, who was often portrayed as a star-studded woman ...

The tau neutrino, one type of particularly energetic neutrino, has eluded IceCube's detectors on the South Pole – until now.

Borrowing the word die — which belongs to biology — the grand total of stellar deaths is about 52 per century or one every ...

A hypothesis has been around for 60 years that part of Stonehenge aligns with moonrise and moonset during a major lunar ...

Astronomy Magazine reviews the 60th anniversary edition of Celestron's NexStar Evolution 8HD Smart Telescope with StarSense.

As a revival of the lunar race inches closer, scientists have just begun working out a key question: What time is it on the ...