By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the ...

The University of Connecticut’s planetarium on North Eagleville Road gave students the opportunity to see the stars on Feb. 4. from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in their first weekly event of the spring ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

For decades, astronomers believed that planets couldn’t form in the early universe due to a lack of heavier elements like ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

It seems that we will never understand the magnitude of the universe in its demonstrated infinity. Neither our generation nor ...