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 ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is captured in this image by the Gemini North telescope. The incredible sensitivity of Gemini North's ...

Mysterious “dark dwarfs” may glow eternally by burning invisible dark matter — and spotting them could finally crack one of ...

As light pollution threatens our view of the stars the world over, the annual Dark Sky photography contest reminds us of the ...

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 ...

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

The findings, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, come from a team led by Mark Siebert of Chalmers. Using ...

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

The study reveals that DFK 52, a red supergiant star, has shed a significant amount of mass, creating a vast bubble of gas ...