For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...

Hawaiʻi Island’s largest astronomy education program, Journey Through the Universe, hosted its 22nd year of classroom visits, career panels, and community events in Hilo last week.

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Somewhere in the universe, enormous black holes are circling each other so slowly that ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out during the early morning hours of ...

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...

Students dive into the mysteries of the universe to uncover the grit driving the Shaw Laureates 2025 in astronomy.

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for astronomy beginners that Contributing Editor Raymond Shubinski recommends or ...

Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred dollars, and that is just the entry ...

February holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky. See what's happening in the skies over North Texas this ...