This loop has been interpreted as a giant bubble blown from the center of the Milky Way. (Oxford/SARAO) Scientists have just ...

Orion is about as familiar as a patch of sky gets. Visible without a telescope, studied by nearly every major instrument ever pointed at the heavens, mapped and catalogued across centuries of ...

The glittering image, taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, heralds a new age of planetary discovery The dazzling sight of more than 60m stars at the heart of Earth’s galaxy has been ...

When massive stars die, they explode, leaving behind supernova remnants. Given how common binary star systems are — more than half the stars in our galaxy have a companion — it stands to reason that ...

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Meet everyone from Roseanne to Kent Haruf to Bob Dylan to Harry Tuft to the Colorado Springs actor whose hard, real life inspired one of the iconic roles in musical theater history ...

In this roundup of space news, we talk about sugar molecules in space, a call for volunteers for a simulated Moon/Mars mission and next steps for NASA's New Horizons probe.

Washington’s receiver group is not empty. It is unresolved, and training camp may reveal whether that mystery becomes a ...

Visitors to the Lennox and Addington Dark Sky Viewing Area are now seeing farther into the cosmos than ever before thanks to ...

Astronomers at Durham University have made a major advance in understanding how galaxies formed and evolved in the early ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...