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

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 ...

We live inside the Milky Way, yet most of us rarely stop to think about just how unusual it really […] ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Hubble has taken the clearest image to date of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is racing through our solar system at ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.