Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory created a detailed map of the Sculptor galaxy. The map covers 65,000 light ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

A prominent museum in New York City has introduced an innovative space-themed show that invites visitors to delve into the ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course that will take out our galaxy and the solar system with ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...

The researchers observed the Sculptor Galaxy for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of ...