After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Washington has identified what appears to be the aftermath of two planets smashing ...

For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...

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

Spring skies reveal some of the best galaxies visible to backyard telescopes.

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Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, ...

If you look eastward at the same hour for two nights in a row, you’ll find that the stars seem to be in the same place. But ...