Connect with the cosmos this fall at Stellar Vista Observatory’s star parties, lectures, and starlit dinners in Kanab. Events ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look ...

Energetic starlight is reshaping a vast molecular cloud 160,000 lightyears away. Hubble has captured a new generation of ...

When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn't generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory.

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

See the winners of the largest astronomy photo competition, selected from more than 5,800 entries sent in from more than 60 ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope.

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from ESA's Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life.

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 ...