An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a well-known ...

Dutch astronomer was authority on stellar evolution, and remained in Ireland following move to Armagh in 1970s ...

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Witnessing a meteor, or \"shooting star,\" is a dazzling event caused by tiny space rocks burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope may have found the universe’s first “dark stars.” Within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe’s earliest stars took ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

Bright nighttime skies are on the way in Michigan as the year's first full supermoon will rise in the sky Monday, astronomers ...

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in ...