Annie Jump Cannon is the subject of a doodle today on Google's homepage, as the search giant celebrates her 151st birthday.
Cannon was an astronomer whose work was considered i...
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) is one of the most iconic and impressive images ever taken of deep space. The image, taken of a tiny section of the southern sky, shows thousand...
A rare astronomical event that takes place about every 26 months is set to happen on Tuesday, April 8th.
Dubbed an âOpposition of Marsâ, this spacial phenomenon invol...
In the latest twist surrounding the composition of the moon, scientists have discovered the possibility of the Earth and moon sharing the same source of water. A scientific paper e...
CosmoQuest, a collective of amateur astronomers that identify and map craters on various space objects, including the moon, has gotten so adept in their studies that their data has...
Astronomers this week revealed that they have spotted the largest yellow star ever seen. The object is more than 1300 times the diameter of our Sun and is also one million times b...
For decades before Pluto, Eris, and other distant objects in our solar system were discovered, astronomers had posited that there must be another planet beyond Neptune that would m...
Supernovae seem easy enough to understand. Stars age, using up all of their fusion fuel and burst in a fiery display that helps to create the wide variety of elements seen through...
Astronomers this week revealed that yet another galaxy from the very early universe has been spotted.
The galaxy, dubbed Abell2744_Y1, is estimated to have existed just 650 mill...