Dragging the trash barrel to the curb, I look up at the night sky, and my current self is instantly tethered to all my past ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from the ...

These high-speed collisions create frictional heat, causing the particles to vaporize in bright ... constellation Lyra, which rises in the northeast. Lyra contains Vega, the fifth brightest star ...

Lyra, also known as the Lyre or Harp, is a small but recognisable constellation that will come above the horizon in the northeast at about 8-9pm. It will then rise up high in the eastern sky and you ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space telescope's upcoming 35th anniversary.

The meteors will seem to come from the constellation Lyra, especially the star Vega, which is the fifth brightest star in the night sky, according to sky-tonight. Don't know where that is?

He will tell us about the brightest of the stars: Polaris (the North Star) and Jupiter, the concept of circumpolar constellations, and the lore of Orion and Scorpio. About Spring Mill ...