Following the recent Wolf Moon in a celestial game of peekaboo with Mars, January is shaping up to be a dazzling spectacle for stargazers, with a parade of planets crisscrossing ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

Dan Govier, whose admiration of the Milky Way and the intergalactic treasures that loom beyond the lens of a telescope, has ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...