"The Moon-based telescope studied a variety of star clusters as well as nebulae ... which is a small galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. It is called a 'Camera/Spectrograph' because it had two ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

When sunlight hits Earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse, light frequencies toward the blue end of the visible spectrum ...

Here we can see the Moon (with Earth shining ... hypnotic Milky Way in all of its glory. The galaxy is thought to contain around 300 billion stars and even more planets, a figure that’s as ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is an irregularly shaped galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, along with other dwarf star clusters ... Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon This Month On March 14, skywatchers ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Located 45 million ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

I was planning to write this column about tonight’s (Thursday’s) lunar eclipse, but the storm dictates otherwise (I’m ...