While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.

The northern sky's greatest galaxy gets its familiar name from the northern constellation where it resides, Andromeda the ...

Peter Aleshire’s article about Meteor Crater, published in the Jan. 16 Independent, combined in my mind with an article I wrote that was published on Nov. 22, 2024 about the ...

Durham also contributes to the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, helping manage its vast data and ...

The constellation Ophiuchus represents the Serpent Bearer, a man wrestling a serpent, dividing the snake’s body in two parts.

Glacier National Park itself is one of the most romantic spots in the U.S., and Lake McDonald is one of its sweetest features ...

The Mauna Kea protests are gaining star power as Native Hawaiian groups continue to block construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Astronomers want to build a telescope they say would change the ...

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Using the Baryons Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectrograph, astronomers have discovered five new carbon-enhanced ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...