Maffei 1 and 2 are faint, dust-obscured galaxies near the Milky Way—discovered in 1967 and challenging targets for deep-sky ...

Catch the solar system’s largest planet satellite sharing the constellation Gemini the Twins with our Moon this morning ...

One amateur astronomer is on a quest to identify every object in the catalog of Lynds’ dark nebulae. Tag along for the journey!

With the discovery of Infinity Galaxy, researchers believe they have found evidence of a direct collapse black hole by ...

During the Planck era, the universe was so small that our laws of physics break down. To dive deeper back in time, we’ll need new scientific language.

Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

The loose open cluster NGC 7243 makes it worth learning the location of Lacerta the Lizard, now visible in the evening sky.

Explore the Soul Nebula (IC 1848), a star-forming region in Cassiopeia. Learn its clusters and why it's a favorite for ...

NGC 6231 is the sky's sixth-brightest open star cluster. It's located in the Scorpius constellation. Amateur astronomers call ...

The crescent Moon appears to plow through the Pleiades cluster this morning with occultations visible across North and ...

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...