When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of March 13. That’s when one of ...
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...
A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...
At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...
Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...
NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.
An issue with a ground system that supports the Falcon 9 rocket led to a postponement of at least one day of the latest rotation of space station crews. By Kenneth Chang The SPHEREx telescope ...
In the early evening on March 5, watch our satellite pass by a famous bright star cluster: the Pleiades (M45).
Join Southern Illinois University of Carbondale for a viewing of a total lunar eclipse on March 13 and 14. Members of the SIU ...
The renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson encourages you to explore the universe with his top picks for astronomy books ...