All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during December 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

Researchers use spectropolarimetry to understand what shape supernovae take when matter explodes from the surface, but it has ...

Plus, the Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and the winter solstice arrives Dec. 21 at 10:03 a.m.

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

December in the Northern Hemisphere features Jupiter as the “Christmas Star,” the rise of the full Cold Moon — a supermoon — and the return of bright Winter stars.

There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the  December Pottsville night skies. These long ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

On most nights, city skies hide the stars. Streetlights, buildings, and cars fill the air with artificial glow that drowns ...

A good satellite tracker app can turn your phone into a personal guide to the cosmos, showing you everything from the ...