The center of the Milky Way is on display during summer evenings, arcing slowly through the southern sky. The galactic center is located near the magnitude 4.5 star 3 Sagittarii, which sits just 4.7° ...

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much larger than previously thought. It's a finding that could change which distant ...

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The sky had turned overcast by the time we reached camp. Heritage Inspirations founder Angelisa Murray hurried us into a ...

Shrouded by a swirl of gas and dust, a gas giant, roughly three to ten times the size of Jupiter, was found in a new ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

Before moving to State College in 2015, Bill Arden only knew the Milky Way as a chocolate-covered candy bar. Arden, who previously lived in Manhattan, became a very active member of the Central ...

Credit: A Rainbow Mosaic of the Rosette and the Christmas Tree Nebulae © Shaoyu Zhang Behold! The 2025 ZWO Astronomy ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Goar’s passion is the Dark Sky Telescope Program that runs through Sept. 21, and that takes place in the Hurricane Ridge ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...