"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

M17, often called the Omega, the Swan, and the Checkmark Nebula, stars in a new image taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile.

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin spent nearly a year in “utter bewilderment” after arriving at the Harvard College ...

This is more stars than all the grains of sand on Earth." The comical AI mishap draws attention to a broader ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

Joaquín Bohigas Bosch, former researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Oxford University, will explain ...