Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

Planning your next vacation to the extraordinary, iconic, stupendous Grand Canyon? Carved out by the Colorado River over ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

There’s a terminator in our midst. Squinting through a telescope, I see it. The fuzzy line (in non-astro speak) where the ...

NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that will improve our ...

Sisters has been named Oregon's newest 'Dark Sky Community,' in recognition of the city’s efforts to curb light pollution.

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

A 14-year-old from Noida is making astronomical strides. Daksh Malik, a Class 9 student at Shiv Nadar School, has discovered ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will appear together in a row throughout the start of February – although Neptune and Uranus will only be visible with binoculars or a telescope.

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Are you fascinated by planets and stars? Do you love staring into the night sky? Here are some places that guarantee a ...