A growing body of evidence suggests that our entire Milky Way galaxy is located within an enormous cosmic void. Most recently, researchers found that sound waves from the early universe—essentially ...

There's something neat that happens when the full moon is closer to the horizon, and we call it the "moon illusion." ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Stargazers can find many locations throughout the country to explore the celestial wonders of the night sky, which serves as ...

Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

Look up some time at the night sky, glinting and humming with all manner of illumination — planes taking off from or ...

Nestled where Florida meets Georgia at the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers (which form the mighty Apalachicola), this 686-acre slice of paradise offers the kind of tranquility that ...

Now the diameter of the known universe can be described as 558 billion trillion miles (that’s 558 followed by 21 zeros) or 28 gigaparsecs. If you’re like most astronomers, I’m pretty sure which size ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...