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Earth’s skies have grown increasingly brighter over the years, as humans accelerate their love of electricity. Then came 2020, the year of lockdowns. One welcome side effect has been reduced light pollution.[...]

Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)...

Powerful ultraviolet radiation and fast winds from the bluest and hottest stars have blown a big bubble around the cluster. Moving into the surrounding nebula, this torrent of radiation sculpted the tall, dark stalks of dense...

From NASA Dec. 23, 2019 Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The newly revealed infant stars appear...

With a name that translates to “beautiful stars,” Bisei is a town in the Okayama Prefecture of West Japan that has long boasted a reputation as a popular stargazing destination...

Recent research suggests that some of the Earth-size planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 could carry more water than our own planet. TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool red dwarf discovered in 1999, and its planets were first documented...

Scientists have identified faint radio signals emitted by the first stars shortly after they shined their light on the universe for the first time. The evidence suggests the earliest stars formed 180 million years after the...

A new Periodic Table of Exoplanets guides scientists and science fans alike through over 3,700 known exoplanets, including those that may host life. To organize the thousands of worlds identified since the first exoplanet...

A group of scientists now believe that ice fizzes and bubbles like champagne when floating in outer space. This discovery was made when researchers at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan first created a mixture of three...

Residents of Arizona Sky Village abide by one simple rule: "Turn off your goddammed lights." The 21-household community near Portal, Arizona is comprised of stargazers and astronomers, and almost every home has its own domed...

British beachgoers on the English Channel seafront will soon be able to visit the Stargazer’s Cabin and its glowing display of constellations. The installation, designed by George King Architects, will feature backlit LED...

NASA’s Kepler telescope managed to record, for the first time ever, the early shockwave of an exploding star, and it was quite a coincidence. The light captures, reconstructed into ‘footage,’ reveal the bright “shock...

NASA’s Kepler telescope managed to record, for the first time ever, the early shockwave of an exploding star, and it was quite a coincidence. The light captures, reconstructed into ‘footage,’ reveal the bright “shock...

Today many people live in towns and cities where light pollution blots out the night sky, making it hard to see the stars. NeoMam Infographic Studios recently created a new infographic for Cheapflights.ca that shows the best...

Something about this makes me want to cry with awe…the sheer scale of it is humbling. It took the Hubble space telescope over 14 years to get a couple of seconds of video…and its absolutely stunning. The universe...