How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Thursday, Oct. 31, with sky charts, ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

They do, but what they do not say is that in early- and mid-summer it's actually quite hard to see the Milky Way from even a dark-sky location; the sky is so bright that its faint star clouds and ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

The universe is littered with trillions of galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda. If you spent your entire life, a hundred lives, looking at every galaxy you could see in a telescope, you would ...

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...

India is home to some seriously stunning spots that will totally wow you with their starry night views. Here are the must-see ...