The Dark Sky Festival in Fountain Hills offers a night of astronomy and education on reducing light pollution.
A University of Kansas researcher in physics and astronomy can now claim to be a star in her own right — at least within the ...
From the moment that astronomer Angelo Secchi identified γ Cassiopeia (gamma-Cas) as the first Be star in 1866, the object ...
Pulsars are ultra-dense, rapidly spinning, and highly magnetized remnants of dead stars. They act like cosmic lighthouses, ...
Five decades after astronomers detected mysterious X-rays coming from the constellation Cassiopeia, the mystery has finally ...
A star you can see with the naked eye has kept astronomers guessing for decades with its unusually powerful X-rays. Now, ...
Spring nights spotlight Leo, the Beehive cluster, April's full and crescent moons with Venus and Pleiades, plus Beltane lore and University of Minnesota sky-viewing events.
Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...
PicII-503, a primordial star located in the >10-billion-year-old ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Pictor II, appears to preserve the ...
Astronomers have spotted two giant planets forming around a young star—offering a stunning glimpse of how our Solar System ...
The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see ...
For 50 years, astronomers have been watching in bafflement as a giant star flickers with powerful, erratic X-ray emission.