Using the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, an international team of astronomers has observed ...

The ratio of a star’s age to its metal content ties it to a characteristic birthplace within the disk.

Come to Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park for the canyons, stay for the stargazing.

A new image from the European Southern Observatory reveals a gas cloud orbiting the Milky Way’s central black hole, offering details on its structure and motion.

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby galaxies.

Astronomers from UCT have uncovered the true scale of one of the largest hidden structures in the nearby Universe.

Capturing the Milky Way doesn't require thousands of dollars in gear. Here is my simple guide to using your smartphone—or camera—and the dark sky to take professional-quality photos.

The human brain contains more connections between neurons than there are stars in the Milky Way. Decoding the electrical activity behind all those cells is the massive task that excites neural ...

Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that direction depends on where you are.

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

Bethesda’s open-world sci-fi RPG Starfield is leaping to a new star system. And by that, we mean PlayStation 5, which happens ...

Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...