"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...

While these free events do indeed happen each month, the gathering that's set to sparkle Dec. 20 feels a bit special: It's ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

An international team of astronomers has uncovered the most unmistakable evidence yet that the powerful jets launched by ...

Star maps and charts are a mainstay of both amateur and professional sky observers. Whether it's on a simple seasonal map or ...

The H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, B.C., is hosting a presentation about Indigenous astronomy titled "Salish Skies ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet ...

A New Mexico college campus is working towards having its own astronomy center and it’s not just a place to gaze at the stars ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...