Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you're ...

Whipple Observatory set to reopen with new Science Center, expanding access to astronomy for rural communities ...

Untangling the Sun’s messy and mysterious patterns may be a computer’s job someday, but the technology isn't quite there yet.

Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard’s star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough ...

My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions were mostly ...

NSF & the Simons Foundation will jointly fund two new National AI Research Institutes for astronomy. Each institute will ...

Scientists discovered that Barnard’s Star wobbles a full 20 inches (50 cm) per second — five times Earth’s effect on the Sun ...

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

NASA announced that two space probes proposed by University of Maryland astronomers have advanced to the next round of ...

The question remains whether the proposal will give new life to the former site, or be a ghost of its former self.

The Springfield Museums, in collaboration with the Springfield STARS Club, is bringing back its popular monthly stargazing ...