What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

In the vastness of space lies an incredible truth: we are made of stardust. This video tells the awe-inspiring story of how ...

Here are seven amazing nebula pictures taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They show colorful clouds in space where stars are born. Each photo highlights glowing gas, dust, and bright shapes, ...

A unique nebula, resembling a giant ant in the universe, has been captured in our galaxy. Known as the "Ant Nebula," or "Mz3," it formed from gas expelled by a star similar to the sun at the end ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The Braves and Delaware North are serving up Southern-inspired dishes like fried green tomato sliders, peach cobbler nachos, and a soft-shell crab burger for MLB All-Star Week.

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.