These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...

Winter skies can be the clearest of the year and the richest in stars. Here are some of the constellations and planets to ...

The young protostar T Tauri is about to be eclipsed by a huge disk of gas and dust that could prompt the star to fade or even ...

These bright stars shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky are part of a young stellar grouping in one of the ...

After a close look with a powerful radio telescope, astronomers are still puzzled by a pair of objects with strange ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...