Friends of Machicomoco State Park announces their Astronomy and Music events at Machicomoco State Park for Spring 2026.

"Failed star" brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.

Stellar streams are trails of stars that astronomers can study to solve mysteries about the history of our Milky Way galaxy ...

Artificial intelligence is now sorting through telescope data at a pace no human team could match, and the results go beyond efficiency gains. Machine learning classifiers have confirmed hundreds of ...

"This cosmic interplay produces a spectacular and dynamic landscape, revealing that the birthplaces of stars are far more ...

A new lecture series at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will honor one of the most influential figures in the city’s astronomy history while bringing a distinguished alumnus back to the ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for more than a month as ...

Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Students and astronomy enthusiasts had the opportunity recently to go where few have boldly gone before and hear from Helen ...

A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA ...