The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

Researchers discovered Eos, a molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. It is near Earth and lacks carbon monoxide. This ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

The planetarium, located at 100 Center Ave., is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

This ultra-massive system ... Milky Way -- both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 light-years, comparable to our own galaxy, and contains more than 100 ...