It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...

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

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 ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

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

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of A11pl3Z, a massive new interstellar object entering our solar system.

Even a speck of dust could alter the image quality. The high reflectivity and speed of this allow the telescope to capture a ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...