Astronomers are finally catching a star in the act of dying, not as a static before-and-after snapshot but as a live, ...

Nottingham University 3D prints surfaces for quantum sensors, featuring intricate textures that can be used to bounce unwanted gas particles.

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

At Armagh Observatory, Italian-born astronomer Dr. Stefano Bagnulo shares his lifelong passion for astronomy, his ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

Ileana Chinnici, an astronomer affiliated with the Vatican Observatory, is one of the editors of the new book Astronomical Observatories and Chronometry, 18th-20th Century: Studies in Honour of Paolo ...