A team led by University of Washington astronomers has discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter over half a kilometer. The asteroid — found while analyzing data from the NSF–DOE ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday3Pluto reaches conjunction with the Sun at 5 A.M. EST. Also this ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

The iOptron 80mm White Light Solar Scope is a decent purchase if you do not already own a telescope and want to buy something ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

August 2026 – 6 days from £2,999 This tour is built around a single, extraordinary moment, the total solar eclipse. A tour ...

It’s one of astronomy’s great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic conundrum has now been provided by researchers at Ireland's Maynooth ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

It’s a cosmic season in Southern California; look for the unveiling of Griffith Observatory’s Celestial Globe, too.

For a long time, dark matter was believed to be cold after separating from the intense radiation that filled the young ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by ...