Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...
Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
The stunning red image of Tarantula Nebula was captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. This 100 million-year-old globular cluster ...
A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.
Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.
The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...
Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.