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

While the events observed around Sgr A* are dramatic, this black hole is not as active as some at the center of other ...

Today: On Feb. 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, at that time classified as the ninth planet.

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...