The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

It's only the third time that experts have spotted an object in the Milky Way that's come from a different solar system. Find ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

Incredibly brilliant images have been released this week of the Milky Way and other distant galaxies from the world's largest telescope at the Rubin Observatory in Chile. Derrick Pitts, chief ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...