Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it happened.

A good place to start if you're a budding astronomer is to learn your way around the night sky. When I was young, this ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Keagan Ruane-Martino grabs four passes for 124 yards and two TDs as Griffins roll to 38-7 second-round playoff win over ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

After making U.S. history as only the second person to be elected to a nonconsecutive term as president, Donald Trump had ...

It’s going to be a long night ... Sky also provided a slick broadcast, with Lewis Goodall quickly following the footsteps of Peter Snow, spitballing facts and analysis with ease, and alongside Mark ...

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly simultaneously 4 million years ago. This observation marks the first time ...

The Taurid meteors will appear to originate from the constellation of Taurus, hence their name, but they will be visible from anywhere in the night sky. Taurus will rise in the eastern sky around ...