When night falls in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, brilliant constellations shine down on the dry plains.

From Death Valley to Great Basin - two Dark Sky Parks certified by DarkSky International - Park to Park in the Dark is Nevada ...

Ripples in spacetime now give astronomy a second sense. The network listens to collisions, maps a low-frequency background ...

Daniel W.E. Green at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, suggests that comet SWAN will hover near magnitude of +6, ...

For centuries, astronomers used the stars to tell stories, make predictions, and even find their way. All of which depended ...

Astronomy enthusiasts will have a chance to enjoy a glimpse of the sky tonight, Sunday through Monday. Saturn, the ringed ...

Columnist John Breunig gets starry-eyed taking a tour of the new Planetarium & Astronomy Center at the Stamford Museum & ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

When Neptune is positioned 180 degrees from the Sun's ecliptic longitude, meaning that Neptune, Earth, and the Sun are nearly aligned in a straight line, it is referred to as Neptune's opposition. The ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Watch the crescent moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus align in a rare predawn close conjunction tomorrow.