News

From meteor showers to constellations, here's everything you need to know about observing the summer sky using the unaided ...
Located around 600 million light-years from Earth, the black hole sat quietly in the dark space between stars.
The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a ...
Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns ...
May's full moon, known as the 'Flower Moon' is set to dazzle stargazers and the astrophotography community alike when it ...
Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...
Conan O'Brien’s travel comedy shows have taken him around the globe — and made him a packing expert in the process.
Like the dazzling leaf colors of fall, a mix of green hues in a healthy forest in spring can be mesmerizing, fit for artists and poets. “In every wood in every spring there is a different green,” ...
Want to observe the sun or watch the next solar eclipse in safety? We've rounded up the telescopes you need to see our ...
Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...
The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides important answers to the question of how the first galaxies were able to ...
Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...