One appeal of astro-observing is that we’re inspecting a vast realm where nothing is sloppily arranged or in need of vacuuming — though the Moon’s southern highlands are admittedly a crowded mess, ...

Are the planets closest to Earth behaving in unexpected ways? Recent observations of Mercury, Venus, and Mars have left ...

Astronomers have spotted a rare cosmic duo: a neutron star that rotates nearly a hundred times every second locked in an ultra-tight orbit with a semi-shredded star. The scientists who found the pair ...

There are plenty of types of stars out there, but one stands out for being just a little weirder than the others. You might even say it's strange. According to a paper from researchers at Guangxi ...

Our readers could probably recite a dozen reasons they put up with freezing air, fogged lenses, expensive accessories, and time-consuming mount collimation in order to experience hands-on astronomy.