Astronomy Magazine

The giant stars may have formed within the clusters and polluted them with peculiar elements....

Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous with intelligence, but he’s more than earned his rep.

A distinct X-ray radiation flare gives compelling evidence to support their highly debated existence. ...

Astronomers may have overestimated these objects' age by 4 billion years....

Saturn approaches peak visibility, Neptune reverses course, and the Summer Triangle dominates the night sky this week....

NASA's nearly 15-year-old rover has hunkered down to ride out some pretty poor weather....

From Luxembourg to Tanzania, Australia to China, and throughout Latin America, Europe and US — more than 2,000 events planned for June 28-30....

Less than 40 planets have been found in three-star systems, but that number is likely much higher....

Astronomers Seppo Mattila and Miguel Pérez-Torres usually study the natural deaths of stars, but they weren’t going to pass up the chance to investigate a stellar murder. A new paper in Science describes how they nabbed photographic evi...

New technique could find some of the youngest planets in our galaxy.

The Milky Way just got larger....

X-ray radiation poses no threat to planets orbiting these two nearby Sun-like stars....

Comet PANSTARRS slides by M54, Venus flanks Gemini’s brightest star, and the Beehive cluster divides Venus and the Moon, all in the sky this week.

In a much-hyped press conference held on Thursday, NASA announced its Curiosity rover had uncovered new evidence of methane — a potential sign of life — as well as signs of organic compounds buried in ancient mudstone. The space agency d...

Well, Einstein’s done it again! That is to say, the gravitational theories of Albert Einstein have once again been confirmed, and to a new degree of precision.