The air is cool, the high desert is nearly completely silent, and the Milky Way stretches like glitter across the sky ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

The Shiras Planetarium was built attached to the new Marquette Senior High School in 1964. Superintendent Henry Bothwell had ...

As we move through the year and check celestial events off the calendar, there are still six meteor showers left to see in ...

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two celestial objects—like planets, the Moon, or stars—appear very close together in ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

There's a beautiful city in Arizona that gets even more stunning at night because it's one of the best stargazing ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

An orbital repurposes a "double piercing" on the lobe to make a single statement with a connecting piece of jewelry. Orbitals ...