For Astronomy magazine's 15th annual compilation of Star Products, we've once again explored the vast astronomical ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our vision out into the cosmos.

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record ...

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

The interstellar visitor will pass just 30 million kilometers from Mars on Oct. 3 — far closer than it comes to Earth.

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by ...

On Oct. 1, 1847, Maria Mitchell was positioned on the roof of the Pacific National Bank on Main Street in her hometown of ...

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

Einstein’s version of dark energy is known as the cosmological constant. It implies a fixed amount of dark energy in each ...

Look Up! Join the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, Inc. to celebrate National Astronomy Day and the 35th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with an evening observation session ...

Launched on Sept. 6, 2023, XRISM studies X-ray signals emitted throughout the universe. On Feb. 25, 2024, it aimed at a neutron star known as GX13+1, located roughly 23,000 light-years from Earth.