Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Recently two new observatories — NASA's SPHEREx and the Vera C Rubin Observatory — released their first images.

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. The European Space ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

A theory by Albert Einstein has helped astronomers discover a rare exoplanet, sparking new ideas of where they can be found.

The approximate location of the summer Milky Way is shown on the map, between the two white lines and within the 'Summer Triangle' of three stars. What we are seeing when looking at the Milky Way is ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...