They’re struggling to connect the dots. Scientists are baffled over mysterious dots captured by the James Webb Space Telescope — with some suggesting they could be giant stars from the origins of the ...

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

Astronomy buffs are invited to dust off their telescopes this weekend for Custer Institute & Observatory’s first-ever ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...

This violent fate is rare: fewer than about 1% of stars are big enough to end their lives this way. Indeed, these dramatic explosions only occur in so-called “massive stars”. These are stars with a ...

Space scientist Maggie Aderin talks telescopes, neurodiversity and being underestimated with Rowan Hooper on the New Scientist podcast, as her memoir Starchild comes out ...

There are actually 13 zodiac signs. If you look at the constellations along the ecliptic, you’ll find not 12 but 13 of them over the course of a year. Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, was forgotten. Or ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

This all-inclusive refractor is best for observing planets and the moon, but still able to give skywatchers some glimpses of deep-sky objects.

The Harlan J. Smith Scholars program involves astronomy undergraduates in observing on a major telescope at McDonald Observatory.