This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

Although Jupiter and Mars have been dominating the eastern sky, there's more here to view than just planets. Already 50° high ...

Mars shines brightly this week as it reaches opposition, appearing golden-red in the sky near Jupiter. Look for it in the ...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

Average stars like our sun die ignominiously. They swell to enormous size, cool from yellow to red hot, and shed most of ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

Winter skies can be the clearest of the year and the richest in stars. Here are some of the constellations and planets to ...

Nobel Prizes honored research in biology and AI, including foundational work on artificial neural networks, which enable machine learning and other ...

Any clear winter night this month, look due south between 8:00 and 10:00 pm to spot the large “hour-glass” shape of Orion the ...