Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. Scientists have ...

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual trajectory.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

Gravity is pulling more than just stars together - it’s dragging entire galaxies into violent encounters. The Milky Way is currently absorbing the much smaller Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, and the ...