"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy today, ...

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

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An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out and view six of the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Because they're all reasonably close together, you can draw ...

Some discoveries make you stop and stare. The Nebra Sky Disc is one of them. Unearthed in Germany, this 3,800-year-old bronze ...

Winter weather has forced the annual 2-day event which draws thousands to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to be ...

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The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for ...