Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

The striking blue stars of the Leo P dwarf galaxy appear dashed across the lower right corner of this image from NASA's James ...

View the planets and night skies from home - Heavens above! Your guide to the best telescopes for stargazing, created for all ...

Detailed infrared images of the region around the supermassive black hole of NGC 1068 from the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer reveal a dense disk, dusty outflow and emissions linked to ...

What's better than a telescope for viewing the sky - a smart telescope of course and this Dwarf 3 from Dwarflab is just about ...

Shopping for a telescope? Whether you're a beginner or ... star clusters and galaxies. Catadioptric telescopes correct some of the visual problems found in these older styles – such as chromatic ...