Unleash your inner space nerd at these incredible late-night stargazing festivals, hosted across the U.S. national park system every summer.

NASA’s solar observatory detected an X1.1 class solar flare on the sun on May 25, which caused a shortwave radio blackout ...

As we approach solstice, U.S states are now the best place to see the Northern Lights. With recent geomagnetic storms ...

A new telescope project called the Next-Generation Very Large Array will revolutionize radio astronomy if it gets the funding ...

The plains house the aptly named Very Large Array (VLA)—a radio telescope made of 27 different antennas, each of which looks ...

Stargazing begins by simply looking up, but these gadgets go a long way in unlocking the mysteries of the night sky. Get more ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

While the Milky Way is technically visible year-round, certain times offer better viewing opportunities — especially for ...

A growing list of Dark Sky Preserves in the U.S., like Grand Canyon National Park pictured here, help travelers find places with the least amount of light pollution—and the best stargazing.

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

Ohio University is ranked among the Best Global Universities by U.S. News & World Report, with its physics program among the best in the world. Students explore yesterday, today and tomorrow in search ...