The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about 13.

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

Astronomers are now creating 'artificial stars' using powerful lasers to overcome Earth's atmospheric distortions that blur telescope images. These laser-generated stars act as reference points, ...

"We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically ...

The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a potentially habitable exoplanet GJ 887 d near one of the stars closest to the ...

Dieter Moeller invested millions in high-tech telescopes and an observatory to house them in Adams County. Now, he's ready to share it all with astronomy lovers like him.

This all-inclusive refractor is best for observing planets and the moon, but still able to give skywatchers some glimpses of deep-sky objects.

A research team has merged incomplete astronomical catalogs and collected the positions of 80 million galaxies in a new database.