The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on astronomy.

Orange Coast College’s Planetarium staff welcomed visitors to their planetarium telescope farm Friday evening for their ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

The close alignment of Venus, Saturn, and a crescent moon created a formation resembling a smiling face during a rare cosmic event.

From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you look. But tonight, a ...

Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

The orbiting telescope, which was launched in 2021 and became operational in 2022, observed hot gas likely forming a ring around the star following the event and an expanding cloud of cooler dust ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting ...