Star trails are the visible imprint of Earth's rotation. As our planet spins around its axis, the stars appear to sweep ...

As the weather gets warmer and clearer skies return, make plans to stargaze over the next several months. Whether you are staying at home or heading out on vacation, your latitude location will play a ...

This rapid reaction required astronomers to use a technique called spectropolarimetry to gather information about the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Skywatchers can catch a glimpse of a one-in-160,000-year comet in January, the brightest of its kind in nearly 20 years. Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) was the third comet discovered in ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For ...

Studies of a preserved rock imprint have revealed the oldest-known brittle star from the southern hemisphere. The newly defined Krommaster spinosus, which lived in the Early Devonian, some 410 million ...

When this shock reaches the surface, it releases an enormous burst of energy. The star brightens dramatically, becoming visible as a supernova. For a short period, astronomers can study the initial ...

As the stars and constellations of the summer slip toward the west, the southern autumn Colorado sky now becomes engulfed in a vast expanse of blackness that is almost completely devoid of bright ...