Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

October belongs to Pegasus and the water constellations, which float through the southern sky after nightfall. Reigning supreme high in the south are the Great Square of Pegasus and, stretching from ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

Reach for the stars with our guide to the best dark-sky reserves on the planet, from the French Pyrenees to the Atacama ...

Hubble Telescope previously discovered eight rings of the gargantuan structure, but astronomers confirmed the ninth ring with ...

Imad Pasha, the lead researcher and a doctoral student at Yale University called it a "serendipitous discovery" because it ...

While eight rings around the galaxy were discovered by the Hubble Telescope, astronomers confirmed a ninth ring using data from the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

Stare into the heart of our galaxy – the Milky Way, filled with billions of stars and mysterious deep-space wonders.

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...