Earth Day is about celebrating our own "pale blue dot," but sometimes stargazing can help us appreciate what is right in front of us even more. Plus, looking up at the night sky is the perfect ...

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

P2 corresponds to the position of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy. Image Credit ... Telescopes, like the Chandra X-ray Observatory orbiting the Earth, can observe ...

This rare event, which happens approximately every 80 years, will render the star visible from Earth for roughly a week ... that can be seen across the galaxy. Why It Matters: The timing of ...

A star system known as the Blaze Star, located 3,000 lightyears away, is on the verge of a powerful explosion, which you will be able to see with your naked eye from Earth ... explosion that is ...

A Hubble telescope image shows the most detailed view of NGC 346 yet, a stellar nursery within the Small Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy.

The comet has travelled for over 160,000 years to make this appearance. Currently, the comet's path is primarily visible in the Southern Hemisphere. It has passed through constellations such as Lupus ...

X-rays from the environment near supermassive black holes can be observed with telescopes, such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory that orbits Earth ... hole in the Andromeda galaxy called M31 ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

Because the ice giant takes just over 84 Earth years to complete one orbit ... with the top row displaying the planet in visible light. The second row uses false-color imagery to highlight methane ...

The galaxy, which is known as JADES-GS-z14-0, is 13.4 billion light years away from Earth. It was just found last year using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. "I was really surprised by this ...