M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

Ursa Major III, once considered a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy, may actually be a dense star cluster. New research suggests its gravity is maintained by a core of black holes and neutron stars, ...

Astronomers identified what they believed was a lone brown dwarf orbiting a bright single star. Then they looked more closely.

NASA has found another big cosmic structure orbiting a red dwarf - and this one allows the scientists to study due to the current temperature inside.

A shooting star streaks across the Milky Way's luminous arm, its brilliant trail dissolving into the velvet darkness that ...

The study reveals that DFK 52, a red supergiant star, has shed a significant amount of mass, creating a vast bubble of gas ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists have reevaluated the nature of Ursa ...

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the massive Stephenson 2 cluster about 19,000 light-years away, has been caught ...

Tourist offerings like the Jasper Dark Sky Festival in Alberta can help protect dark skies by generating support among ...