Astronomers have spotted another never-before-seen "nova" blaze to life in the night sky. This may be the first time that ...

While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has ...

Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected by the French scientist Georges Rayet and others), and astronomers came to ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...