A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer ...

The new observatory will allow astronomers to step through space and time like never before — these videos give us a taste of ...

Martin Kahanec, the co-founder and scientific director of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), has received ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

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

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Also known as Andromeda, the Milky Way’s most immediate neighbor is about 2.5 million light-years away, and provides an excellent option for studying how spiral galaxies form and evolve over time.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...