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Dr. Gregory Feiden, a University of North Georgia (UNG) professor of astronomy, and his research group have spent the past ...
Dive into the fascinating crossroads of astronomy and astrology — where science meets symbolism, and the sky tells two very ...
Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.
Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? The sun will someday ...
An interest in astronomy may strike early in life or later. Regardless of what lit the fire of that interest, you need ...
Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and ...
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out during the early morning hours the ...
Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.
Astronomers discovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf forged in a stellar smash-up and unmasked only by Hubble’s ...
Researchers have spotted a Jupiter-like gas giant forming in the disk around a young sun — earlier in the star's lifetime ...
A full moon is slated for Sept. 7, but there are other celestial events occurring this month. More on viewing Saturn at its ...
Astronomy buff Mike Lynch likes to tell people to “come out and make the stars your old friends, which is what they really ...