Volcanoes have stirred human awe for thousands of years, with their bursts of fire and rivers of molten rock. Yet, beyond the ...

NASA’s new PUNCH mission just opened its eyes to space, capturing its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the ...

The seasonal Cosmic Cafe at Mt. Wilson Observatory serves coffee, wraps and snacks with a singular view of the city. It makes ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

To best see the Lyrid meteor shower, Griffith Observatory's director suggests heading to the mountains or desert to get away ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

A fog of long-wavelength infrared light could be produced by dusty, star-forming galaxies that have remained hidden — until ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars – a real-life 'twist' on the fictional twin ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars. The brown dwarfs ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...