The nova V462 Lupi was first discovered on June 12 by the Ohio State University-led All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ...

The astronomers were able to detect stars as faint as magnitude 4.6, which is amazing; that’s not much brighter, for instance, than what you can see via unaided vision at a dark site.

There you’ll see a very bright white star. This is Deneb, the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. With a magnitude of 1.3, ...

I got to see the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) through a 36-inch at the Texas Star Party one year, and it was breathtaking. One of my favorite things to do at a star party is to wander the main observing ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...