The center of our galaxy is visible overnight on summer evenings, just off the tip of the Sagittarius Teapot’s spout in the ...

Veteran actor William Shatner, famously known as Captain James T. Kirk from Star Trek, recently sparked an unexpected buzz ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

NGC 1786’s mixed-age stars suggest globular clusters aren’t one-generation wonders, offering fresh clues to galaxy formation far beyond the Milky Way.

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy ...

James Gunn's Superman movie swooped into theaters Friday, offering thrilling battles, big-hearted heroes and an amusingly ...

Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of ...

A waning gibbous moon, by now rising late at night, will appear first, followed by the steady, golden glow of Saturn. They’ll ...