July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, ...

I enjoyed the new space show at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City this week.

WASHINGTON - The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a ...