The best time to view the Perseids is between midnight and dawn, according to the society. A good day to view them is Thursday, July 24. That's when the new moon is, according to the Farmers' Almanac.

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern." Using the world's most ...

Public observing sessions at the Owl Observatory in Kalamazoo are free to the public. Two more will take place this summer on ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system.

As astronomers rush to study a newly discovered comet from beyond our solar system, a powerful new observatory may turn rare ...