Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Satellite mega constellations promise faster connectivity but threaten astronomy, as thousands of satellites brighten skies, ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out late in the evening of December 9 and ...

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...

People usually apply to graduate programs at research universities in Washington. But uncertain funding means there could be ...

A few years ago researchers using the radio-based Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) performed an extraordinary observation, the likes of which remains a dream for most other astronomers. The EHT team ...

Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

There is no doubt that books have the power to change how people think about the world — and the universe — around them. But what makes a book influential? Does it need to have a major impact on ...

One can only imagine what Grote Reber’s neighbors thought when, in 1937, the amateur radio enthusiast erected in his yard a nearly 10-meter-wide shallow bowl of sheet metal, perched atop an adjustable ...