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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Follow Orion’s three belt stars southeast (down and to the left) to Sirius in Canis Major, the brightest star in the sky.

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 ...

Shandin Pete says Indigenous astronomy seeks to reclaim stories on how and why star groupings and constellations look the way they do.

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

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