NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can use its onboard imaging system to find its way among the stars,” added Alan ...

In Australia, millions of newly hatched Bogong moths embark on an impressive journey twice a year. Each spring, they hatch ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in breathtaking detail. It is set to reveal secrets previously beyond our grasp.

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...