The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Since it’s Christmas Day launch in 2021, the James Webb Space telescope has provided those of us back on Earth with some of the most incredible, awe-inspiring photographs of space, as well as aiding ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term habitability.

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

Two Palmyra-Macedon High School seniors, Madeleine Sullivan and Richard Perry, recently presented their groundbreaking research on young star formation at the prestigious American Astronomical Society ...

Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

A good environment to see the stars--one of the brightest is the planet, Venus. But there are five more planets out here ...

The South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland is one of the world's leading sites for optical and infrared ...