Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

A threatened Australian insect joins the exclusive club of celestial navigators.

By Shreya Dasgupta In Australia, millions of newly hatched Bogong moths embark on an impressive journey twice a year. Each ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

From a super distant Earth-Sun rendezvous to Mercury shining in the evening sky and a stunning Buck Moon lighting up the ...

Oregon is well-known as a destination for stargazers. The state has an array of designated Dark Sky places, where amateur ...

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 ...