For the first time in nearly a century, Earth’s night sky may soon be lit up by one of nature’s rarest celestial events: a ...

The atmosphere bends the sunlight toward the moon. Blue light gets scattered in the atmosphere, which is why the sky is blue. Only the red portion of the light spectrum cuts through to reach the lunar ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

If it does, it should become about as bright as the North Star, the 48th brightest star in the night sky. T Corona Borealis ... fuel and is cooling down) and a red giant star (a star that's ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

Red Mars sits almost directly overhead once the sky gets dark. Watch the Moon pass a couple of bright stars and planets, see below for dates. 1st: Tallahassee Astronomical Society’s free ...

Scotland's red deer population has skyrocketed to approximately ... make XX Trianguli the "most spotted star in the sky." Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and ...

For the first time, we have visual confirmation of a white dwarf/red dwarf system responsible for puzzling intermittent radio ...

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star about 40.7 light-years away from Earth. It is of particular interest because it has seven ...