An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the aftermath of what some call "galactic cannibalism:" the aftermath of a 100 million-year-old cosmic collision ...

Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

A blood red moon anchors a month of planetary meetups, dark-sky delights, and improved chances to catch the northern lights around the spring equinox.

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

A new image from the ALMA telescope shows the splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy in unprecedented detail, giving astronomers information about how stars and planets ...

A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...

A rare planetary parade of six planets will light up the night sky at the end of February, with four visible to the naked eye ...

Hidden deep within the Milky Way, a surprising discovery has been made: over 100 black holes tucked away in the Palomar 5 stellar stream. For years, scientists speculated about their existence, but it ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...