"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2026 / Unity Productions Foundation (UPF), the award-winning film production company, is expanding into interactive media with the upcoming release of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in a bizarre nebula that looks like a brain floating in space. Formed ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

It's Friday evening. You have two days to fill, no budget to speak of, and kids who will be awake by 7 a.m. asking what ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...

The Door Peninsula Astronomical Society is hosting a full lineup of free astronomy programs this March at its Astronomy Campus in Sturgeon Bay.

After more than 2,000 years, the first-ever star map created by ancient astronomer Hipparchus has been uncovered using cutting-edge X-ray technology.

The September 2025 issue featured “A guide to beginner’s guides,” a reminiscence and description of some the books for astronomy beginners that Contributing Editor Raymond Shubinski recommends or ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...