The study reveals that DFK 52, a red supergiant star, has shed a significant amount of mass, creating a vast bubble of gas ...

Tucked away in the northern reaches of Potter County sits Cherry Springs State Park, a modest 82-acre slice of Pennsylvania wilderness that delivers an astronomical experience unlike anything else ...

A shooting star streaks across the Milky Way's luminous arm, its brilliant trail dissolving into the velvet darkness that ...

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need a ton of crazy equipment or fancy gear to shoot the night sky. Grab a sturdy ...

Other good stops for stargazing are on Palomar Mountain, “especially going down East Grade Road and overlooking Lake Henshaw.

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the massive Stephenson 2 cluster about 19,000 light-years away, has been caught ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director ...

Malorie Thorson, a 20-year-old from the town of Waverly, was crowned as the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday ...

A rare black moon will happen tonight Aug. 22-23. Don't worry too much if you miss it, although it won't happen again for ...

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

"The days immediately following the black moon will reveal one of the most beautiful lunar sights: the thinnest crescent," ...