This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.

NASA has officially confirmed the finding of its 6000th alien planet, furthering its quest to understand our galaxy and ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

Take an inside look at NGC 7456, a spiral galaxy that showcases energetic light, dark dust lanes, and the beauty of newborn ...

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

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.

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.