Two jets, shooting in opposite directions, compose the biggest lightning bolt ever seen in the sky — about 140 times as long as our own Milky Way galaxy is wide, and more than 10 times the distance ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

Alternatively, you can also seek out the Hercules constellation and Corona Borealis will be right next to it. Remember that you can't see the star in question until the nova pops, so if you look up in ...

For solo travelers, this is an ideal opportunity to escape into nature, with nothing but the stars to keep you company.

A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...

Theoretical physicist Tracy Slatyer proposes new scenarios for dark matter and helped discover the Fermi bubbles.

Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

CHICAGO -- The Indiana Fever officially hit the .500 mark with a 100-81 victory over the Chicago Sky on Friday night, ending a chippy game with a 3-1 series advantage in this budding rivalry.

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a ...