A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries and shows how massive stars shape galaxies.

From distant supernova remnants, to colorful mosaics of giant galaxies and nebulae, check out these 7 alluring deep universe ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

The final, infinite frontier of space has captured the imagination of humanity since the days of prehistory, and it seems the ...

Florida residents and visitors will be flocking to Orlando beginning Thursday for Universal Orlando’s highly-anticipated grand opening of its fourth park, Epic Universe. The park will feature ...

Illustration of the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy pulling toward each other. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, DSS, Till Sawala (University of Helsinki); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) The ...

Most of the time, astronomers use high-tech telescopes and expensive equipment to make observations. This time, they just had ...

“We could have detected this galaxy even if it were 10 times fainter, which means that we could see other examples yet ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

MISTRAL is a new-generation receiver for observations at millimeter wavelengths, built as part of the recent project to upgrade the Sardinia Radio Telescope for the study of the high-frequency radio ...