In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...

Welcome to Cosmic Pizza in Bozeman, Montana – a celestial journey for your taste buds! In the heart of Bozeman, nestled ...

A newly discovered star system in the heart of the Milky Way is moving at unprecedented speeds. Scientists believe this ...

The middle star in the dagger is actually not a star, but the Orion Nebula, which through a telescope is revealed to be a ...

Boeing notified employees it is planning to issue layoff notices "to align with revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations." ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

As the name implies, the nebula resides in the great constellation Orion the Hunter. Even if you are not familiar with constellations, you probably recognize Orion — the mighty hunter with the ...

SpaceX launched a stack of 23 Starlink satellites from Florida this morning, Feb. 21, adding to the company's growing ...

RIT associate professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in early 2025, which will map the entire sky.

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...