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

An interest in astronomy may strike early in life or later. Regardless of what lit the fire of that interest, you need ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

Twinkle, twinkle. It's warm enough to watch the night sky without a parka, at last, and there's plenty to see. Burlington Free Press reporter Molly Walsh caught up with Jack St. Louis, the president ...

A team of researchers used almost 200 images of distant galaxies, whose light has been bent and magnified by this huge cluster, combined with the depth of Hubble data to measure the total mass of this ...

The newest Android app from the Google team is looking pretty awesome, and if it works like it says it does, then I’m going to be having some fun times this weekend out in the country. Google Sky Map ...

Constellations through the ages -- Constellations of the zodiac -- An astronomy primer -- Watching the skies -- How this book is organized -- The greek alphabet -- Map of the northern sky -- Map of ...

Our home galaxy is called the Milky Way. It spans approximately 100,000 light-years across and contains an impressive 400 BILLION stars; so many that it's impossible to see and count them all, let ...