Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or ...

Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies ...

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Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

It’s June, which means solstice time – and therefore, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest night of the ...

A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, in collaboration with Dr. Peter Craig, has introduced a more precise ...

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

Scientists have long assumed the Oort Cloud, one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system, to be spherical.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not collide, with 50-50 odds in 10 billion years, according to astronomers.

A team of scientists accidentally visualized a hidden spiral in the Oort Cloud, and it might change everything we know about ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury will be visible in the western horizon, the space agency said. Californians can observe ...