The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term habitability.

Two Palmyra-Macedon High School seniors, Madeleine Sullivan and Richard Perry, recently presented their groundbreaking research on young star formation at the prestigious American Astronomical Society ...

He’d let me move the telescope around a bit, and I could ask questions. And he was always wonderful to share information with me. I probably just didn’t ask enough questions.” ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

The South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland is one of the world's leading sites for optical and infrared ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

With frigid temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills, you may want to wait a few more days to check them out. Don't ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

"A parade of planets, also sometimes referred to as a planetary alignment, is when several planets in our solar system appear ...