Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

It turns out that one of the most prominent space artists predicted how a strange celestial object would look — 50 years in ...

A team of environmental scientists at Duke University, working with colleagues from the University of New South Wales, the ...

A new study from the department of astronomy found that when one of the two stars in a binary star system accumulates mass from the other star, its internal structure becomes permanently altered ...

Staelin and Reifenstein recently reported 1 the discovery of two pulsed radio sources near the Crab nebula, which is the remnant of the supernova observed by the Chinese in AD 1054. Pulses from ...

“The moon will slowly disappear and reappear over an hour,” James Davenport, research assistant professor of astronomy and associate director at DiRAC, said. For people interested in learning ...

Indie streaming service Nebula has set its first-ever scripted original series, “Sub/liminal,” with Oscar-winning producer Dan Jinks (“American Beauty,” “Big Fish,” “Pushing Daisies ...

NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) detected the magnetic field streamlines shown over this image of the Keyhole Nebula. A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X ...

The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local universe. At its center, the Tarantula Nebula hosts the most ...

A burgeoning Jonah crab population is proving a challenge for some Nova Scotia lobster fishermen. Dan Fleck, executive director of the Brazil Rock 33/34 Lobster Association, says the crabs are ...

While that federal ban has been in place for decades, John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, a member of AAS’s Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE ...

officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to Astronomy magazine. Its distance was closer ...