Betelgeuse, the second-brightest star in the constellation Orion, is a giant star whose strange dimming has sparked debate over when it will collapse and explode in a massive supernova. Now, however, ...

Manish Naja has officially taken charge as the new director of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences ...

The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, stretching across nearly 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) of the far side of the moon. And thanks to new ...

Astronomers have found a world shrouded in an atmosphere of water vapor, orbiting a star 100 light-years away.

Controlled chaos is a key part of forming massive stars. An international team of astronomers has observed evidence that ...

The voice of one of our community’s most ardent and articulate environmentalists has been silenced. Gordon MacAlpine, a ...

Nicolaus Copernicus is best known for his observation that the sun was at the center of our solar system, but he also made a ...

The SETI Institute is looking for young scientists to help fill in the missing parts of the infamous Drake Equation.

A newly discovered radio transient with a cycle of nearly an hour, presents an intriguing celestial puzzle. Exhibiting three ...

Physicists have proposed that axions, theoretical particles that could explain dark matter, may accumulate in dense clouds ...

Satellites in orbit are already an obstacle for astronomers. Sending tens of thousands more could compound issues without any ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe one of the major meteor showers of the year. It’s called the Orionids ...