Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

So, he decided to take matters into his hands and capture the galaxy at every pollution level in real-life. "I photographed ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

Currently, the Moon is drifting away from Earth at a rate of about 1.6 inches per year making it slowly appear smaller in the ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

Most people think they know exactly where “down” is. It’s the direction your feet point. But that familiar sense of ...

A group of about 1,000 stars known as the beehive cluster is swarming a sky near you. Here's when and how to see them.

A Falcon 9 rocket delivered a collection of payloads including space telescopes, Earth-observers and other craft with a ...

After a 35-year journey, Voyager 1 finally reached interstellar space in 2012. The most distant human-made has to venture on ...

For decades, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was an invisible monster, betrayed only by the way ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...