Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

From supermoons to a total eclipse to the national park’s biggest and best-attended star parties, these are the must-see celestial shows of the year ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

[COMING SOON: Check out the roller coasters coming to Epic Universe, Universal Orlando’s 4th theme park] “Ride the ...

Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating the beauty and importance of dark skies. Big Cypress National Preserve, designated an International Dark Sky Park in 2016 by the International Dark-Sky ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

Enjoy a free stargazing lecture followed by a Q&A panel and guided stargazing with telescopes (weather permitting). By ...

From Borrego Springs, California to Victoria, British Columbia, here are some of the unexpected family destinations to ...