Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out late in the evening of December 9 and ...

There's a big change to the 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' TV broadcast this year Supreme Court rejects free speech case ...

Astronomers have obtained unprecedented images of two star explosions, revealing complex ejection processes and delayed ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Space weather is notoriously hard to predict, but one forecast map shows parts of Indiana might see the northern lights low on the horizon Dec. 8.

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