The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these ...

Cave Lake State Park near Ely, Nevada is exactly that kind of rare find – a place where peace isn’t just a concept but an actual, tangible experience.

Find out what is visible in the night sky tonight, with guidance on locating Lacerta and other key constellations before the moon rises ...

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of ...

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...