The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

The celestial object described is an open cluster, NGC 7789, possessing an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and located between 5th-magnitude Sigma Cassiopeiae and 6th-magnitude Rho Cas, known by several ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.