A DU astronomer spoke with Denver7 Wednesday about Colorado's northern lights show this week. Here's what she had to say ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, European astronomers have observed ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in the galaxy NGC ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought  — ...

A University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa astronomer helped pull off a cosmic first: mapping the three‑dimensional shape of a star’s ...

A recent discovery of a mysterious gas in deep space has left astronomers in a state of shock. This revelation is the latest ...

Observatory historian Kevin Schindler said since the passing of Percival Lowell, his endowment has been funding the majority ...

Astronomers have captured a first-of-its-kind image of a massive dying star.

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

Astronomers have discovered that the iconic Pleiades cluster, long admired as the “Seven Sisters,” is only a small part of a ...

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy ...

Astronomers have redefined the size of the famous Pleiades cluster. According to a new study, it is twenty times larger than ...