Posts claiming a celestial "smiley face” will light up the night sky over Christmas aren't true. But the Christmas Tree ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

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Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

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

Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos.

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

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

Scientists atop Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai’i and across the Hawaiian chain are turning their telescopes skyward Friday ...

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

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of December 26 and ...