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

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

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

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

Learn how galactic archaeology uses chemical clues to uncover how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years.

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

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 ...

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

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to look to the southeast on the evening of March ...

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

A massive stellar wind bubble sculpts the nebula into the shape of the Norse god's famous helmet.

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