Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

At the easternmost edge of the Ouachita National Forest and less than an hour away from Little Rock, Lake Sylvia is the site ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...

Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...

The line became known as the main sequence. Competing groups of astronomers came up with different ways to categorize main ...

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...

"If we looked at the whole sky, which we can't do with JWST ... oxygen in the JADES-GS-z14-0 galaxy suggests the galaxy had been forming stars for potentially 100 million years before it was ...

At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...