Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Much like the murky waters of the deep ocean, the unpredictable fluidity of Earth’s atmosphere can distort any light that ...

Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH that resides away from the galactic center and matter from a disrupted star ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

"The detection of heavy water … proves the water's ancient heritage and provides a missing link between clouds, disks, comets ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) obtained the first close-up image of a red supergiant star, WOH G64, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, outside the Milky Way galaxy. WOH G64, a star with a ...

The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope – Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...

The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

As a professor in Caltech’s astronomy department for a decade, Mansi Kasliwal first came to the observatory as a graduate ...

This Friday, April 24, Southern Arizona’s Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory will be hosting a livestream “star party,” where viewers can watch the night sky as it appears in multiple locations ...

There are plenty of parades we can easily join in this world — the zany Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena welcomes anyone for a $10 fee — but there are a few noble processions that we must be satisfied from ...