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 ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...

Shapley’s award of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be presented at the 249th AAS Meeting, Jan. 10-14, ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has been studied extensively ever since. But that does not mean we have it all figured out. Researchers have spotted a large cloud of ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has been studied extensively ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite image of Ring Nebula obtained by the WEAVE (WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer) instrument on the William Herschel ...