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 ...

Other good stops for stargazing are on Palomar Mountain, “especially going down East Grade Road and overlooking Lake Henshaw.

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director ...

M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above the southern horizon. Remember, the width of your clenched fist held at ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in ...

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star – the largest structure of its kind ever seen ...

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold hydrogen, new research reveals. They could help scientists figure out when ...