ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

Greetings stargazers. Although I address these “What’s Up in the Durango Skies” columns to stargazers, we should occasionally be moon-gazers, too. I am writing this month’s column on the day of the ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

The end of daylight saving time can sure be a shock to the system, but San Diego’s weekend lineup offers the perfect remedy.

Domina Stamas participated in a two-week analog astronaut mission in Poland simulating life on the moon. The Westlake Charter ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...

After surviving the Kosovo War and witnessing her first solar eclipse as a child, UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. student ...

An interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS has just passed our sun. Despite online rumours that it’s an alien spaceship, experts say it’s definitely a comet.

A waxing gibbous moon and the ringed planet Saturn will enlighten our sky for treat-or-treaters this Halloween.

President Donald Trump hosted hundreds of costumed guests — from superheroes to dinosaurs and even a few children dressed as ...

The Astronomical Society is bringing the night sky down to Earth with the Cosmic Carnival on Saturday, Nov. 1. "It's the celebration of science and astronomy," Lynne Olson, The Astronomical Society ...