The Rho Ophiuchi nebula system is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and as such has come under the scrutiny of both ...

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the ...

OXFORD — Jefferson’s Restaurants has named Cameron Martin of Weaver Elementary School and Sandra Plummer of Trinity Christian Academy as the winners of its first-ever Teacher of the Year awards for ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

Discover why we've given the ZWO Seestar S30 smart telescope nearly top marks in our latest smart telescope review.

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

HD 219134 is an orange dwarf 21 light-years from Earth, much cooler and smaller than the Sun, and even more than the usual ...

In the new study, however, astronomers used the cutting-edge "Keck Planet Finder" (KPF) instrument as the W. M. Keck ...

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they’re more ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have listened to the music of a nearby star, uncovering ...