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

July’s rare meteor shower combo of Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids lights the sky with Milky Way ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky ...

NASA NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

In a coordinated global effort, 26 observatories attempted to capture Quaoar’s shadow as it passed over Earth. Only a handful ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...