NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

The picture, taken by Todd Bush, was shot on Monday, Oct. 20, at the Mile High Swinging Bridge in Avery County. A welfare ...

LINVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) - A breathtaking photo taken Monday night captured the Milky Way above Grandfather Mountain in North ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

Naturescape Gallery at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents "Chasing the Light: Cape Cod" with photographer Allie ...

Birds don’t recognize borders, and their migrations connect people and places across the Americas. We thought it was time that the Audubon Photography Awards follow their lead. This year we’ve ...

Hanging below the vast cosmic heart is a knot of dust and gas known informally as the Fishhead Nebula, thanks to its vaguely ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter, thought to make up more than one-quarter of the ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin stargazers are in for a rewarding week of celestial events — including the peak of ...

A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has stumped researchers for decades, as they’ve tried to discern whether the light comes from colliding particles of dark ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky ...