A breakthrough discovery has recently rocked the world of astronomy: a jet of matter ejected from a massive black hole in the ...

The nearly full Moon will pass Mars on the evening of Dec. 17 in a brilliant conjunction.

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Night Sky Network is a nationwide collection of amateur astronomy clubs that bring their love of the cosmos to their ...

Year? A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light moves incredibly fast — about 186,000 miles (300,000 ...

The seven stars that make up this famous asterism are part of Ursa Major the Great Bear. And they offer a lot more than meets ...

The Hubble tension is one of the most hotly debated discrepancies in all of astronomy. It centers around a number called the ...

The universe’s light-starved early epochs, as well as the first stars and galaxies, lie beyond the reach of conventional ...

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

Recent measurements with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cast doubt on the current understanding of the exoplanet ...

Since 2017, Imperio, 37, a Duke Eye Center Ophthalmic Photographer, has found a creative outlet in astrophotography, the ...

Data access, or the availability of new and archival data for use by other scientists and the public, is key to scientific ...