Astronomy stories of 2026 include the return of a total solar eclipse to the Artemis II mission that aims for humans ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

Often considered the strongest meteor shower of the year, the Geminids produce numerous colorful meteors every hour. During ...

In January 1610, Galileo Galilei, using a newly improved telescope with 20x magnification, observed four celestial bodies orbiting Jupiter, initially appearing as stars. These bodies, later named Io, ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn has left its mark on the terrestrial landscape: a gigantic white dish that towers into the sky near Effelsberg in the Eifel hills – the 100-metre ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. Think back to what you learned about astronomy in elementary school. If you’re like most people, ...