Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

Discover why we've given the ZWO Seestar S30 smart telescope nearly top marks in our latest smart telescope review.

The brilliant blue-white star lighting up the red nebula Sh2-46 hints at a dynamic and possibly fleeting encounter that could ...

This strange nebula, which sports a very long name, was discovered in 1977 and has changed dramatically over time.

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...

Depictions on ancient Egyptian coffins and tombs suggest a link between the sky goddess Nut and the Milky Way. A recent study ...

This groundbreaking scientific visualization takes viewers on an immersive journey inside the Pillars of Creation, one of the ...

NASA and the European Space Agency recently shared an image of an oddly shaped spiral galaxy located about 190 million ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...