Look to the west after sunset this week for a spectacular sight, as the razor-thin waxing crescent moon hangs low above the ...

Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via March's new moon phase is upon us, bringing gorgeous dark skies free of natural light pollution — ...

The Pleiades is a 1,000-strong open star cluster in the constellation Taurus.

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky ...

Winter constellations shine defiantly in the face of spring as galaxy season and zodiacal light beckon.

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it ...

Hundreds of mysterious objects have appeared in images captured by the Webb space telescope. The curious dots could reshape ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy ...

The levels of a heavy form of hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS are 30 to 40 times higher than in Earth's oceans, suggesting the comet has ...

Cancer the Crab is a dim constellation, yet it contains one of the most beautiful and easy-to-spot star clusters in our sky: ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre exoplanet with a giant underground ocean of magma that traps sulphur and may represent ...

The observatory aims to answer a number of questions about the universe by studying different phenomena in the sky, including ...