The moon will briefly hide Regulus in a dramatic occultation visible across parts of the eastern U.S.

JWST captured a dying star wrapped in mysterious buckyballs, revealing complex carbon-rich shells that astronomers say offer rare insight into stellar endings.

Learning to read and use a star map can transform stargazing into a guided journey among constellations, planets, and deep-sky wonders. With the right preparation, tools, and techniques, you can ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than 47 million galaxies and quasars, and will continue observations into 2028 ...

The Milky Way galaxy’s fuzzy star-forming edge has finally been mapped, as researchers identify the major region of stellar ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The original story “ For the first time, ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies – tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way – have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new study published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

After more than a decade of development, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is entering final preparations for an early ...

NASA has completed its next space observatory, built to create sharp, panoramic maps of the universe while revealing how the ...

Two billion years after the cosmos banged into existence, a mysterious force known as dark energy began shoving space outward ...

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies ...

How far the Milky Way's disk extends has long been difficult to define—it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at ...