September’s superb nocturnal sights are redoubled this year with an extravagant bestowal of stunning beauties wedded to a ...

Ursa Major III was considered a dark matter galaxy, but was found to be a compact star cluster with a dense core of black ...

With cardboard caps on their heads, dung beetles rolling their balls showed how they find their way using the Milky Way.

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

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

A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

Tucked away in the northern reaches of Potter County sits Cherry Springs State Park, a modest 82-acre slice of Pennsylvania wilderness that delivers an astronomical experience unlike anything else ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

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

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...