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

Scientists have revealed the exact date that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy will erupt into life, and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August ...

Scientists have discovered an 'interstellar tunnel' that connects our solar system to distant stars. In a new study, ...

More than 170 entries were submitted by astrophotographers from across Ireland, including under-18s for the first time ...