The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

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

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

The object, a celestial body from another star system, was discovered on Tuesday by the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...