Hawaiʻi Island’s largest astronomy education program, Journey Through the Universe, hosted its 22nd year of classroom visits, career panels, and community events in Hilo last week.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out during the early morning hours of ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for astronomy beginners that Contributing Editor Raymond Shubinski recommends or ...

Somewhere in the universe, enormous black holes are circling each other so slowly that ...

Introduction to Astronomy is a college class usually filled with excitement and a lot of questions about outer space. Questions like: What are black holes? Are there planets out there that are ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...

Students dive into the mysteries of the universe to uncover the grit driving the Shaw Laureates 2025 in astronomy.

From Mercury’s rare appearance to NASA’s Artemis II launch window, here’s everything to watch in the skies this month.

Only about one third of students could correctly identify basic astronomical distance scales, with many unaware that stars ...