Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

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

"Once you do, it's just spectacular," said Aileen O'Donoghue, astronomer with St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky ...

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

Folks think I've lost my mind when I suggest the best time of year to visit me for stargazing here in the Southern California desert is during late July and early August. Yes, the days are scorchingly ...

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.

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby galaxy.

SCIENTISTS have discovered the biggest black hole merger ever recorded, as two massive spacetime ripples spiral into each ...

The NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory has officially begun its journey to map the universe, and it started with a remarkable feat: ...

The community of St. Martins, N.B., is reaching for the sky, literally, as it works to complete a corridor with the world’s highest concentration of dark sky sites.

While astronomers expect many supernova remnants remain to be discovered, the fact that Teleios was spotted at all “is pure luck,” Filipović says. Had it been located closer to the galactic plane, ...

The sky had turned overcast by the time we reached camp. Heritage Inspirations founder Angelisa Murray hurried us into a ...