Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

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New images are key to understanding solar magnetic storms and other space weather that can disrupt systems on Earth.

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? July holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Ângela Santos, has made the first ...

The astronomical start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, also known as the longest day of the year, is Friday, June 20, ...

Griffin Lau and his brother celebrated their late father, Curtis Lau, a fan of space travel, in a special tribute by sending ...

Mercer University physics and astronomy professor Matthew Marone says the sighting is not uncommon, and it's likely connected ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...