January in Tucson means jazz. More than three dozen events will be part of this year's Tucson Jazz Festival, including late-night jams at The Century Room and a free fiesta downtown. When: Jan. 17-25 ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

Radio waves have been detected from what appears to be a pulsar, with just one problem – it‘s spinning thousands of times more slowly than most such objects, and hundreds of times slower than theory ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

UGA sophomore Clay Chilcutt won a contest to help name one of Earth's quasi-moons. In May 2024, the radio show Radiolab and ...

In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...

New Glenn is capable of carrying 50 tons (45 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit (LEO). SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, ...

When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and leave behind ...

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

Giant planets orbiting close to their stars were thought to boot other planets out of their star system on the way in, but ...