The “ghost towns,” named Sculptor A, B, and C, consist of three faint and ultra-faint galaxies about 6.5 million light-years ...

Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

From starry skies and urban sights to mysterious wilderness, noctourism is about discovering the magic of exploration by ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

These are the planets that will be visible with the naked eye. A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky ...

The show is a collaboration between Waterfall Arts in Belfast, the Union of Maine Visual Artists and Dark Sky Maine.

This monumental project involved more than 600 snapshots and required over 1,000 Hubble orbits, showcasing the intricate beauty and complexity of Messier 31.

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

NASA has released this photomosaic in two images that can be downloaded from its website: ...