There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

"Even though it's the first time we've seen a galaxy like this, we think that there could be many more out there." ...

An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the "Diamond Ring" in the star-forming region Cygnus X, a huge, ...

The conversation about the Thirty Meter Telescope had gone silent for a time, since the developers of the controversial project pegged for Mauna Kea turned their attention to competing sites elsewhere ...

A superheated stellar factory in the early cosmos produces stars 180x faster than the Milky Way, reshaping models of galaxy ...

Columnist John Breunig fills a time capsule with moments from the opening of the Stamford Museum & Nature Center's new ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

A criminal court jury on Friday convicted Joseph “Jupiter Joe” Martinez of second-degree murder in the killing of 13-year-old ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...