A Bronx astronomer convicted of sexually assaulting and killing a 13-year-old girl after DNA linked him decades later to the ...

This stunning JWST image of an edge-on protoplanetary disk shows how planets are born around young stars in our galaxy.

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A strange flicker from a star 11,000 light-years away reveals evidence of two planets crashing together in a rare cosmic ...

She was one of a number of female “computers” at the observatory, whose job it was to process astronomical data. At this ...

A University of Kansas researcher in physics and astronomy can now claim to be a star in her own right — at least within the ...

Pulsars are ultra-dense, rapidly spinning, and highly magnetized remnants of dead stars. They act like cosmic lighthouses, ...

Five decades after astronomers detected mysterious X-rays coming from the constellation Cassiopeia, the mystery has finally ...

A star you can see with the naked eye has kept astronomers guessing for decades with its unusually powerful X-rays. Now, ...

Recent advances in supercomputing have allowed scientists to tackle a long-standing question in astronomy. Researchers have ...

Spring nights spotlight Leo, the Beehive cluster, April's full and crescent moons with Venus and Pleiades, plus Beltane lore and University of Minnesota sky-viewing events.