A trio of meteor showers sends flashes of light across our skies this month, and the first week will feature the largest and ...

Sunrise and sunset • Rises at 7:31 a.m. and sets at 5:59 p.m. on the 1st (daylight saving time) • Rises at 7:03 a.m. and sets ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

Joyce's nebula scene captures the expanding shell of the supernova remnant CTB 1, also known as both the Garlic Nebula and ...

Due to its stellar activity, the galaxy has become a favorite for astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Orbiting ...

Betelgeuse is a colossal star that shines brilliantly in the constellation Orion, approximately 600 light-years from Earth. Immense and unstable, this red supergiant is in the final stages of its ...

Join in for live views of our nearby galactic neighborhood from the dark skies at McDonald Observatory.

After Star Trek: The Original Series aired its last episode on June 3, 1969, with "Turnabout Intruder," creator Gene Roddenberry turned his attention to other projects like The Questor Tapes, a TV ...

Promotion for Emma Stone’s new horror-comedy “Bugonia” is getting pretty meta with the launch of a new website that’s centered on bringing the truth to light about Auxolith CEO Michelle Fuller.

Here’s a story for the ages — or maybe a story of the ages. The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest image, of barred spiral galaxy NGC 6000, is rich in yellow at its center and blue on its outskirts, but ...

Historically, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was a subject of extensive debate, initially considered a "nebulous smear" and later central to the "island universe" hypothesis proposing its status as an ...