In the coming decade, astronomers will surely solve some cosmic mysteries. Maybe by 2029, scientists will know what “dark matter” actually is, so they can give it a better name. Maybe they’ll find out ...

My interest in astronomy began in third grade, when my parents bought me a set of constellation flash cards. We couldn’t afford a telescope, but I was able to borrow a neighbor’s small refractor from ...

With the right equipment and enough curiosity, amateur astronomy makes for a safe and stellar pandemic hobby. Credit: bob al-greene / mashable After a couple hours of sleep, Rachel Knight woke to an ...

In a former cattle field in rural central Texas, a startup called Starfront has quietly built what it claims is the world’s largest remote telescope observatory by number of scopes. The facility ...

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of the ...