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

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 ...

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

Starspots in general can last from days to months, and can migrate across the surface of their star. Tracking the behaviour ...

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 ...

Sun Dec 15, 2024 07:00 PM Last update on: Sun Dec 15, 2024 07:03 PM Astronomer Dr Lamia Mowla, an Assistant Professor at ...

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

In stark contrast with a paper released last year that determined the exoplanet was likely to be bare and barren, new data ...

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

The constellation Orion was named after the hunter by the same name in Greek mythology, and includes more than a dozen distant stars. But two are particularly bright: the red supergiant Betelgeuse, ...