A new mini-moon the size of a city bus will begin circling our planet and hanging out in our skies until Thanksgiving week.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Crew Dragon spacecraft and its crew is scheduled to lift off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday at 1:17 p.m.

The Extremely Large Telescope or ELT will be the most powerful optical telescope ever built. When it opens for business in 2028, it promises to reshape our view of the cosmos. Astronomers from more ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate ...

A new astronomy discovery center at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff is near completion and our photojournalist Levi Pettigrew took a behind the scenes look.

It’s an exciting time for astronomy enthusiasts as Earth will temporarily get a second moon for almost two months. A recent ...

With the addition of NAU’s Golden Ticket, KinderCamp alums who graduate from CCC can transfer to NAU and complete a ...

According to a new study, if a primordial black hole passed within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could shift the planet's orbit by about a meter -- causing a "wobble." ...

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are blinding radio telescopes and risk crippling vital research into the universe, astronomers ...

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A Minnesota man has been sentenced to more than 33 years in prison for stabbing his wife to death during a Bible study ...

Now in its 16th year, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition aims to highlight amateur space photographers from around the globe. This year's winning image was taken by Ryan Imperio ...