In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the “Christmas Star” from the ...

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical particle known as the axion, which was ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

James Webb Space Telescope captured the light of a dying star, supernova GRB 250314A, from when the universe was only 730 ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ...

The final full moon of 2025 passed already, but the new year has plenty of spectacular moons coming up. Here's when to view ...

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of ...

Overview of major sky events in 2026, including solar and lunar eclipses, planetary motion, meteor showers, and comet appearances ...

Described in the Gospel of Matthew as the celestial sign that led the Magi to the newborn Jesus, the star stands at the ...

NASA has revealed a spectacular star cluster, NGC 2264, that resembles a Christmas tree. The image combines optical and X-ray data, highlighting young stars and glowing gas in a festive cosmic display ...

Technically, the sun is a G-type main-sequence star — specifically, a G2V star. The "V" indicates that it is a dwarf, Tony Wong, a professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...