Nintendo invited me to play through a single level in both Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. The company is ...

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

Milky Way season in the US is coming to an end, but the iconic band of stars, our galaxy's center, should still be visible for awhile.

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen ...

Amazon is offering 27% off the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ. Perfect for watching Saturn's opposition on Sept. 20.

Traditionally, black holes are usually thought to "reside" at the centers of galaxies. However, a research team led by Dr. An ...

This image of the Sculptor galaxy will give astronomers detailed information on a variety of stars, nebulae and galactic regions. European Southern Observatory If you happen to find yourself in the ...

Before defining what a light-year is, we should define what a light-year is not: It is not a measure of time, but rather a measure of distance. The confusion arises from the “year” that comes at the ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope captured this image of the Sculptor Galaxy. ESO/E. Congiu et al. Caldwell 65, better known as the Sculptor galaxy, is bursting with stellar activity and dust-rich features.

Andromeda, the nearest galaxy of a size similar to the Milky Way’s, has long been thought to be on course to collide and merge with our Galaxy in roughly four billion years. But some researchers now ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...