Well he should, because those few brief seconds — in July of 1956 — gave young David Levy a star to wish upon for the rest of his life. They also seeded a lifelong passion for astronomy that comes ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury will shine bright enough for the naked eye to see, and you can catch glimpses of Uranus and Neptune with binoculars or a telescope.

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

Its age is estimated to be around 13 billion years, almost three times as old as the solar system. It orbits a binary system ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Last week, we discussed the Dog Star, Sirius, the sky’s brightest star. Orbiting Sirius is a faint companion, a tiny star known informally as the Pup.

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.