The planetarium, located at 100 Center Ave., is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Telescopes provide closeup views of Jupiter and its four largest moons discovered by Galileo, and of Mars. Although Mars is ...

A new study from the NASA New Horizons mission team at the Southwest Research Institute have resulted in a first-of-its-type ...

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

To find Ophion, scientists used a new machine-learning computer tool to analyze data from Gaia, which mapped the galaxy for more than a decade but recently retired because it ran out of fuel. Though ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers, who have uncovered a massive molecular cloud located just 300 ...

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the ...

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...