Astronomy is increasingly code-heavy and focused on in-house development. Given the huge amounts of data generated with every night of telescope observations, it is, unsurprisingly, one of the first ...

Prepare for the world’s largest and most spectacular astronomy and space expo! The Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) is back to mark its 35th anniversary in Suffern, New York, conveniently located 40 ...

The planets of the Solar System are not representative of all the types of planets that exist elsewhere in the galaxy. There ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

University of Louisville has decided to permanently close its planetarium, a campus facility that has not been used since the ...

It's Friday evening. You have two days to fill, no budget to speak of, and kids who will be awake by 7 a.m. asking what ...

The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...

New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most brilliant supernova explosions ...

Bangladesh has growing academic interest in astrophysics but lacks the infrastructure for observational research ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

Astronomers have collected evidence of a violent collision between two planets in a distant star system. The first clues of this cataclysmic event came when a rather boring star began behaving very ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...