The final supermoon in a series of four will occur tonight—here are the best places in the U.S. to catch a glimpse.

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

An enormously detailed map of the Milky ... legacy” in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics (Vol. 689, September 2024). To the naked eye, the Milky Way (the Vía Láctea) is a path of pale white light ...

Welcome to Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, a 294,000-acre wonderland of geological marvels nestled in the heart of ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

For less than $400, it's possible to observe places like the star-forming regions at the center of our galaxy.

I've added arrows to show how you can use Orion (shown in the center of the map below) to hop around the summer sky. To learn ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to ...

For the LMC, its brightest region should show up in the sky as a bar about 10 times as long and twice as wide as the full moon, according to Astronomy.com. The rest of the LMC shows up as an extremely ...