The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum ...

Researchers spotted a colossal cloud of gas and dust in the Milky Way, filled with turbulent motion, newborn star seeds, and ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky. Spectators will have the best luck on cloud-free nights and in locations away from ...

Video of recommended Bay Area stargazing locations from 2021. (KRON) — The Perseid meteor shower, considered the best meteor shower of the year, according to NASA, peaks on Aug. 12 and 13. “With swift ...

A photographer has captured a remarkable night-time image of a viaduct. David Robertshaw, 45, from Halifax, managed to snap ...

"This is the first time a feature of this scale and size has been found in a local galaxy cluster." Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years ...

Physicists have begun using the gigantic magnetic fields of galaxy clusters to observe distant black holes in their search for an elusive particle that has stumped scientists for decades. (Nanowerk ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

An illustration shows a galaxy embedded ... colliders to hunt for dark matter, scientists say The current detector is a proof-of-concept prototype that features 8 silicon skipper CCDs. The next step ...