Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets and many moons in our solar system. Now, an international research team has ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, even though the system is young enough that it should still have a ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

While I enjoy stargazing as much as the next person, I also love to know how things work – to get under the hood. French smart telescope pioneer Vaonis helps quench my thirst with a special edition of ...

Smart telescope company Vaonis has released the X edition of its popular Vespera II model. This limited run has a transparent shell so that astrophotographers can observe the inner workings of a smart ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope.

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water usually sinks.

Located in the remote northern reaches of Pennsylvania’s Potter County, Cherry Springs sits atop a 2,300-foot mountain surrounded by the sprawling Susquehannock State Forest. It’s a place where ...

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...

There’s so much going on this month for stargazers, including great lunar conjunctions and cover-ups. One of the great meteor showers also puts on a show. October is a transitional month, both in ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirmed Earendel, the most distant star, shining just one billion years after the Big Bang. Gravitational lensing magnified this massive B-type star, offering ...