Tiny white dots of stars appear on a black background, with about a dozen larger bright spots with fuzzy edges also visible. A rich collection of galaxies at the heart of the Virgo supercluster of ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark they are." NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, ...

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery. The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a ...

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve. The 4MOST (4-meter Multi-Object ...

"The Phoenix cluster has the largest reservoir of hot, cooling gas of any galaxy cluster." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How do ...

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier generation of scientists were willing to acknowledge. A new book shows that the ...

There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy that will have you exploring everything from twinkling stars and ...

NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, or "transit," the face of their parent stars to investigate stellar "spottiness." The new technique, called the "StarryStarryProcess," ...