NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Our own Milky Way has a 4 million solar mass black hole – Sagittarius ... The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), founded in ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

With stargazing becoming more popular, one area in Wales has been ranked as the best place in the UK to enjoy astro-tourism ...