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

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have detected the closest and brightest fast radio burst ever recorded, a dazzling signal from a galaxy just 130 ...

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 ...

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

On March 16, 2025, CHIME detected an ultrabright flash of radio emissions, which automatically triggered the CHIME Outriggers ...

And water, along with carbon monoxide, also has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early universe which is located nearly 12.88 billion light years from Earth. Detection of these two ...

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

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

The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to shine every ...

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 ...