When it does take place, the outburst will be brief but it will appear as a new star in the sky for a little less than a week ...

As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...

Astronomers have finally identified the source of mysterious radio waves from deep space, tracing the signals back to an ...

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar companion. The radio pulse repeats every 2 hours and was first detected a ...

AI tools are transforming how we observe the world around us—and even the stars beyond. Recently, an international team ...

M17, often called the Omega, the Swan, and the Checkmark Nebula, stars in a new image taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile.

One of those oddities is the stellar trio, where two stars orbit each other and then a third star orbits the other two. A ...

In the astronomy minor, you'll take foundational courses in planetary astronomy and stellar astronomy, which studies galaxies and star systems. You'll learn how to use a telescope for observation and ...