The ghostly ring Kýklos (from the Greek κύκλος, circle or ring) and the object WR16 both show the environment of rare and ...

Most of them flare just once, randomly, making them impossible to predict, and very difficult to trace back to a source. Some ...

The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented ...

If you bring a telescope and get away from city lights Friday evening, there’s a chance you’ll see seven planets parading ...

The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.

"By putting together the individual results, like in a puzzle, we reconstruct the formation history of these systems." ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't ...

Luna skims by Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter as it grows from a thin crescent to just past First Quarter in the ...

Stargazers are to be treated to an incredible weekend of celestial displays as the incredible crescent moon and Venus will be ...

The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new observations that helped ...