This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

M17, often called the Omega, the Swan, and the Checkmark Nebula, stars in a new image taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile.

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy.

Familiar planets, stars and constellations are easiest to write about, because there's a treasure trove of information ...

close to a star called Epsilon CrB, the constellation’s fifth brightest. Most astronomy and planetarium software programs and apps have T CrB in their catalogs, including Stellarium.

Adding a new member to your family (and picking out the perfect baby name) is already a magical experience, so why not look ...

Located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius ... to the orbits of the two stars. "This is such a great example of how with astronomy we often begin a ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...