The waning Moon passes Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury before dawn, while Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.

I know I’m older and I know my present aches and pains will probably become more troublesome. But I intend to keep on ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

The newly confirmed supermassive black hole at the heart of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the ...

14. The Sun emits a continuous stream of plasma called the solar wind. On Earth, the most visible effect of the solar wind is the production of the northern and southern lights, the aurorae. Intense ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same ...

The center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of the most fascinating and luminous regions in the universe, even though it houses a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*. This video ...

The Perseid meteor shower 2025 peaked Aug. 12-13, delighting skywatchers worldwide. The Perseid meteor shower peaked on Aug ...

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

Big Cypress National Preserve is home to Alligator Alcatraz, which is causing light pollution in one of the first dark skies ...