Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

UPDATE 8/28/24: After pushing back the initial launch from Tuesday to Wednesday this week to check a helium leak in the launch system, SpaceX once again delayed Polaris Dawn’s launch, citing poor ...

You've set your telescope up and are showing people some of the wonders in the sky. Of course, they're going to ask you questions. Here are some you might be asked. How many do you know the answers to ...

Longtime readers will recognize the name Dean Regas, astronomy contributor to The Enquirer and former cohost of the PBS series "Star Gazers," but they may not know that Regas is also the author of ...

All About Orion is a large-print book about the Orion constellation. It includes descriptions of Orion's stars and nebulae. The book features tactile elements for visually impaired readers. It offers ...

"Our scenario describes all the evolutionary phases of the supernova with great precision." An investigation of a cosmic explosion that marked the violent death of a massive star has called into ...

"If such a fifth force exists, it cannot exceed 7% of the strength of gravity." Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological ...

It wasn’t all that many years ago that you could go to a major astronomy meeting and hear the latest news about galaxies and supernovas and quasars and the Big Bang — but nothing at all about planets ...