Stellar astronomy examines the life cycles of stars from their birth in dense molecular clouds to their ultimate fates as white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. Turbulence and gravity sculpt ...

WASHINGTON Fifty years ago, Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin, of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM), picked up “the voice of Jupiter,” at an observatory near Seneca ...

A rare grouping of 10 celestial bodies is captured in a stunning new photo taken during last weekend’s great planetary parade. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A remarkable planetary system detected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is challenging established ...

Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Mercury are staring in a "planetary parade" this week, but your ability to actually spot them will depend on preparation, equipment and, as always, a spot ...

University of Hawaii at Manoa planetary astronomer Dr. Tobias Owen was today awarded the 2009 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize by the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded 51 Pegasi b Fellowships to Brittany Miles and Paul Dalba to support their postdoctoral research in planetary astronomy. Miles is currently a Ph.D. candidate ...

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To understand how long a planetary nebula remains visible, we first need to understand why a planetary nebula is visible at all. When a solar-type star (one with a mass of 0.8 to eight times that of ...

Sagnick Mukherjee will receive his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from UC Santa Cruz this spring. He is expected to begin his fellowship at Arizona State University in September 2025. (Photo by ...