SANTA CRUZ — A selection of celestial photographs will be on the display in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s atrium starting Thursday. The gallery is a collaboration between the museum and ...

(The REPORTER) — “Being able to see those cosmic objects that are millions and millions of miles away is very, very fascinating for me,” local astrophotographer Sid Krishnamoorthi said. We often ...

(CNN) — Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again. Observers spotted and ...

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

In the quiet darkness of his Mount Tabor backyard in Southeast Portland, Josh Romberg carefully points his 4-foot telescope at the North Star. Unlike amateur astronomers of decades past, he isn’t ...

Space agencies around the globe have launched an unprecedented wave of planetary defense exercises, all centered on a mysterious interstellar visitor that refuses to behave like anything scientists ...

A team of researchers from Texas A&M University has demonstrated the use of laser beams to lift and steer tiny engineered devices without physical contact. The findings from the recent experiment are ...

A transmit antenna at Site 1 of the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) in Western Australia is shown at night. Credit: Doug Humphries, BAE Systems WASHINGTON — A new deep-space radar site in ...

Tonight is "blue moon Eve" (see the May 31 entry for more details). Late tonight, look toward the southeast to see one of the sky's most striking color contrasts. The bright, nearly full moon will be ...