The Harlan J. Smith Scholars program involves astronomy undergraduates in observing on a major telescope at McDonald Observatory.

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 changes in the sky during just a single observation session.

Members of the Mahoning Valley Astronomical Society are helping residents learn more about the stars and planets by ...

Credit: NASA/ESA Spring is almost here, which means it's galaxy season for amateur astronomers! Grab your telescope and join ...

“When half the images are bad, you still have to pay for them,” he said. Now, he can shoot thousands of frames on one memory card with his digital camera. A lifelong astrophotographer, Meader has had ...

This all-inclusive refractor is best for observing planets and the moon, but still able to give skywatchers some glimpses of deep-sky objects.

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is alarmed by the threat to ground-based astronomy posed by proposals put forward by ...

Discover the beauty of the night sky at a stargazing evening led by the Peterborough Astronomical Society (PAS) this weekend.

Thousands of satellites are being launched into space at low Earth orbit, joining hundreds of thousands of pieces of space ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

This violent fate is rare: fewer than about 1% of stars are big enough to end their lives this way. Indeed, these dramatic explosions only occur in so-called “massive stars”. These are stars with a ...

Everything you absolutely need to know about selecting, using and optimizing your astrophotography equipment for the best possible astrophotos, from smartphones, to telescopes and mirrorless cameras.