Light pollution refers to the excessive, misdirected, or invasive use of artificial outdoor lighting. This phenomenon is most ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

News 12′s First Alert Weather team toured Deerlick Astronomy Village in Taliaferro County on Wednesday. This is just a sneak ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...

The city of Flagstaff has taken big steps to preserve the clarity of its night sky. Find out the best ways to experience the ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

The nebulosity of hydrogen gas is revealed with the use of a “Hydrogen-Alpha” filter in an astro image of the Cygnus ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...

By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...