From 93 million miles away, the Sun just got a lot more personal. Astronomers have now seen some of its finest magnetic threads in sharper detail than ever before, and those tiny features could change ...

A half-lit Moon aligned with the constellation Aquarius and a bright Saturn stole the spotlighton November 27. The scene ...

Local library systems offer everything from Tarot cards to waterproof picnic blankets for cardholders to borrow.

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

When a faint green smudge appeared in images from a backyard telescope in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 22, 2025, astronomers did not expect it to upend basic assumptions about how comets work. Yet ...

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.

Astronomers are uncovering new ways to study the universe’s first stars, objects too distant and faint to observe directly, by examining the ancient 21-centimeter radio signal left behind by hydrogen ...

There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...