For the first time ever, astronomers have observed a coronal mass ejection (CME) coming from a star that isn’t our Sun. CMEs are massive eruptions we often observe coming from the Sun. They drive ...

Deep in space, astronomers have witnessed a rare and powerful moment: the birth of planets around a distant baby star. This discovery, made with the help of two of the world’s most advanced telescopes ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star of Bethlehem, he wrote that it should be “classified with the comets which ...

The Yerkes Future Foundation (YFF) has officially acquired the Yerkes Observatory's collection of 180,000 astronomical glass plates from the University of Chicago. These glass plates, spanning from ...

Author Susan Vizurraga has written a new historical novel about astronomer Williamina Fleming. The book, "Williamina Fleming, Astronomer: An imagined Memoir," is based on the life of the Scottish ...