Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

Sunspot AR3234 blasted an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Sunspot AR3229 erupted with an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

A couple months back, astronomers officially confirmed the existence of “Betelbuddy,” Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion ...

The countdown to the Winter Olympics is on, and one Fort Carson soldier is looking to do something the U.S. has yet to ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the founding director of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C., returns ...

Earlier this year, many university departments slashed their incoming PhD classes in a last-minute scramble as the Trump ...

As the government shutdown drags on, scientists and advocates remain focused on the long-term effects of proposed budget cuts ...

University of California, Irvine. An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s temperate zone. The world, ...

For 20 years, he taught “Introductory Astronomy” at Boulder as a way to provide the foundation for how college students ...