Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

Wausau Pilot & Review This week offers stunning celestial sights for skywatchers in the Wausau area — from planetary pairings ...

Leo sees action as both Mars and Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 move through; plus, spot galaxies and noctilucent clouds in the sky this week.

NASA has just released a new documentary about the most powerful space telescope ever built, and you can watch it now.

Astronomers have found what appears to be a new planet forming around a young star, offering one of the clearest glimpses yet ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury will be visible in the western horizon, the space agency said. Californians can observe ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show that opened to ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported June 2 that the probability of the two spiral g ...

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...