The urban astronomy movement #PopScope has set up telescopes on sidewalks that have brought 26,000 people closer to the night ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may not be alone. And its potential companion may be responsible for ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

The young open cluster NGC 6709 soars through the sky tonight, visible in Aquila with binoculars or any telescope.

Earth’s satellite and the Red Planet offer a picturesque view amid the stars of Virgo for a few hours after sunset tonight.

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed several tidal disruption events — when a black hole draws in ...

Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some spooky looking photos of our solar system's newest interstellar invader on the ...

An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has ...

Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...