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Deep images of galaxy clusters reveals the light of wandering stars. What set these stars free from their hosts?

The James Webb Space Telescope has found the tiny tail of a close-in exoplanet that's losing its atmosphere.

The average brightness of the night sky is increasing by 10% every year, making the stars less visible.

Venus and Saturn have a close conjunction in twilight. Comet ZTF heads into its best week or two. And Betelgeuse pulls ahead of Sirius ever earlier in the night.

If you have a solar filter, check out the sunspot group AR 3190 that's crossing the solar disk this week.

An arc that glows green thanks to doubly ionized oxygen appears near the Andromeda Galaxy in a photo obtained by amateur astronomers.

Astronomers have discovered that one of the Milky Way’s nearest galactic neighbors has dramatically changed its looks in the recent past.

Forget the hype and go outside to enjoy the real thing — a relatively bright comet you can see in binoculars from a dark sky.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed its first exoplanet, a rocky Earth-size planet, and attempted to take the measure of its atmosphere.

A supernova that skywatchers in the Far East observed almost 850 years ago has produced the most unusual remnant astronomers have ever found

A tiny binary system is not only small but also ancient, billions of years older than other such systems, which raises questions about its origins.

On Friday the 13th, Saturn is still well above bright Venus in twilight. Watch them close toward their conjunction on the 22nd. Jupiter and fading Mars shine high. Sirius sparkles below Orion, and the ascendant Big Dipper stands on its handle.

Astronomers have mapped the magnetic field along the "bubble" of gas 1,000 light-years wide around the Sun.

A red giant star thousands of light-years away "blinked," dimming significantly for seven long years, before returning to normal.

Mirfak, the brightest star in the constellation Perseus, is a yellow supergiant star with an uncertain fate.

Images and spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the first galaxies in the universe are too many or too bright compared to what astronomers expected.

Although no total lunar eclipses occur this year, skywatchers can look forward to two “central” solar eclipses — including an annular event in October whose path runs from Oregon through Texas.

Native American tribes each had their own full Moon names — we introduce the most commonly used ones and the traditions behind them.

Astronomical observatories enjoy some of the world’s darkest night skies. But even there light pollution is spreading, a new study suggests.

Saturn approaches Venus in twilight, Jupiter and Mars ride high, and Mare Orientale peeks around the edhe of the Moon. And, try exploring the many double stars in Orion's Sword.

Why do we look up? Because we are a way for the universe to know itself; and perhaps because the universe is a way for us to know ourselves.