A recent study on ancient Egyptian imagery suggests rare drawings of the sky goddess Nut represent the earliest visualization ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... the dense core remnant of a star—builds too much mass and ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Telescopes provide closeup views of Jupiter and its four largest moons discovered by Galileo, and of Mars. Although Mars is ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Astronomers have long suspected that this LMC supernova remnant is the remains of a destroyed white dwarf star, but the exact ... remnants in the LMC and the Milky Way. This led them to suggest ...