The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...

This week on Where’s It Wednesday, Natalie and Emily take us to the otherworldly beauty of Joshua Tree National Park! From ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration" according to the European Southern Observatory. The ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries ...

Astronomers in China have observed a pulsar that becomes partially eclipsed by an orbiting companion star every few hours. This type of observation is very rare and could shed new light on how binary ...

Researchers discovered a large black hole jet from the early universe, and it's reshaping what we know about the early ...

The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.

The Hubble constant, a set number that connects a galaxy’s speed to its distance from Earth and tells us how fast the ...

A new discovery may mean Planet Nine is cancelled. . | Credit: nagualdesign; Tom Ruen, background taken from File:ESO - Milky Way.jpg/Wikimedia Commons A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered ...

Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way could contain millions or billions ... The rogue's gravity "bends" the light of the background star. That produces a little "wobble" in our view of the ...

One approach looks far back in time, using the cosmic microwave background—the faint light ... The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers ...