Astronomers are uncovering vast, wheel-shaped structures in the cosmos that challenge long-held ideas about how galaxies grow ...

Satellites reflect sunlight, Earthshine, infrared and radio waves. A new NASA-led study shows that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from some ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture Wednesday. Snapped last month by the ...

"This is a one-of-a-kind system with an incredibly rare orbital period." A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars in ...

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do." Once NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in the next ...

David Eicher is one of the most widely recognized astronomy enthusiasts in the world. He has been with Astronomy magazine for more than 40 years, beginning as an assistant editor and working through ...

Quality optics are critical for success in the field. And while hunting season is already in full swing across much of the country, it's never too late to upgrade the scope on your deer rifle or ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy GHZ2, revealing how the first black holes grew just a few hundred million ...

The future is bright—too bright—for life as we know it once the sun transforms into a red giant star ...