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.

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

We've found Elves and Trolls! And you know what, they appear during thunderstorms. A strange glow in the sky, beautiful color but absolutely frightening - it's a transient luminous event striking in ...

On the day of the 2025 autumnal equinox, the sun rises almost exactly due east and sets to the west. The months that follow ...

The recent find of a Pacific tablet etched with star maps dating back 5,000 years has captivated the attention of both ...

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

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

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

New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.

The FCC wants to exempt satellite providers from oversight required by the National Environmental Protection Act. Astronomers ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

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