The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

The Crab Nebula features an oval structure with intricate details, extending diagonally across the scene. The image captured by the space telescope shows hundreds of objects in a variety of colors, ...

With yoga mats and beach towels sprawled across the grass and telescopes propped at the night sky, City College students ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history.

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Artist’s impression of a red dwarf (left) and a white dwarf (center) orbiting each other. The stars’ orbit is so tight that their magnetic fields interact, causing pulses of radio emission every two ...