In December 2018, a trio of astronomers – Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science, David Tholen of the ...

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A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like Arrokoth can form directly during the gravitational collapse of a dense ...

Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...

Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, ...

A House bill that would authorize the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to extend existing astronomical observatory leases and subleases for up to 10 years has advanced despite concerns ...

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...

On Episode 197 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Aarti Holla-Maini, the director of UNOOSA, and Rick Jenet, the executive director of Expanding Frontiers and the National Space ...

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

Unlike a solar eclipse, which occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, people watching Tuesday morning’s lunar eclipse don’t have to worry about damaging their eyes. Binoculars will ...

Summers in Saskatoon are short and warm, in stark contrast to its long, bitterly cold winters. Six summers ago, when I visited Saskatoon—the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan—in ...

Amateur astronomers, take note: A wonderful celestial event known as a total lunar eclipse will occur in the skies above ...