A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments in planetary birth, where gas, pebbles, and gravity are still fighting over ...

The James Webb telescope peered into an ancient spot of light, and found it to be the most metal-poor galaxy in the early universe.

The United Arab Emirates ranks among the world's most light-polluted countries. But in one dark desert spot known as the Empty Quarter, stargazers can behold what the cities cannot: the sweep of the ...

The Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum in Marion houses the world's largest collection of fluorspar and honors Kentucky miners.

A new method could improve cosmology research by analyzing supernovae together with the galaxies that host them.

Every year for a week, when the sun sets over the 1,300-acre Prude Ranch, a historic Fort Davis cattle ranch established in ...

A decades-old mystery about Saturn has finally been solved thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists discovered that Saturn’s changing “rotation rate” was never caused by the planet ...

Blue moons only happen once in a while, but there's a difference between a calendrical blue moon and a zodiacal one, ...

From remote peaks to observatory sites, these North Carolina stargazing spots reveal brilliant night skies and cosmic views.

A record-setting collection of precisely measured gravitational waves reveals new information about how black holes behave ...

Astrobiologists are raising concerns that humanity’s search for alien life may be limited by the very tools designed to find it.