Learn how Mount Wilson Observatory was founded on Dec. 20, 1904, the people involved, and the decisions that shaped early modern astronomy ...
"Enemy Mine." Set in the year 2092 as an interstellar war erupts, Earthling space pilot Will Davidge (Dennis Quaid) and a reptilian alien Drac (Lou Gossett Jr.) crash land on barren Fyrine IV after an ...
How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...
Night sky update for December 17, 2025, covering the moon phase, visible planets, meteor showers, and key space and astronomy news from today ...
Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...
A mysterious cloud of ultra-hot dust around Kappa Tucanae A may finally have an explanation: a hidden companion star. The ...
In the Bible, the Star of Bethlehem rises in the southern sky and then comes to a standstill, which is abnormal for a ...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...
Fraunhofer IAF and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have provided 145 high-performance low-noise amplifiers for ...
Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...