Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...

Based on Xuanzang’s account, Nalanda Mahavihara had an observatory tower, which could have been used to track the movement of ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, January 30 at 11 a.m. for a virtual talk by Cecilia Garraffo, Ph.D. Abstract: The next wave of astronomical data is set to ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have quantified the impacts of a constellation of social factors on ...

Scientists and engineers hope that the growing availability of satellite data will help tackle future deadly wildfires after ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

The basis of social learning theory is simple: People learn by watching other people. We can learn from anyone—teachers, parents, siblings, peers, co-workers, YouTube influencers, athletes ...

Six planets are aligning with four visible to the naked eye in late January. Here's how to find them in Michigan.

"A parade of planets, also sometimes referred to as a planetary alignment, is when several planets in our solar system appear ...