The fact that Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky over Earth, visible with the naked eye, has made it one of ...

One amateur astronomer is on a quest to identify every object in the catalog of Lynds’ dark nebulae. Tag along for the ...

A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

Astronomers trace mysterious blast of X-rays to 'Die Hard' star that refuses to perish (video) An image of the double detonation supernova SNR 0509-67.5 as seen by the VLT.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

Astronomers wanted to understand where any mid-sized black holes might fit in, so they began looking harder. What they discovered is that lite intermediate-mass black holes do indeed exist.

Named for famous astronomer Vera Rubin, the observatory is perched on a mountain in northern Chile in the foothills of the Andes. Astronomers say the location is both high and dry enough to ...

A white dwarf star in the Large Magellanic Cloud exploded twice in a double-detonation supernova. Credit: ESO / Priyam Das et al. / Hubble / K. Noll et al. Astronomers have finally caught a dying ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...