Now we are officially in springtime, the days are getting longer, and the nights are shorter in the northern hemisphere.

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches European Space Agency starts to unfold atlas of 1 billion stars in 3D Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way ...

Astronomy enthusiasts were treated to a glimpse of the Milky Way ... lit the sky shades of purple, blue and gold. The photographer, who tied the job in with an "impromptu date night" with ...

One of the brightest deep-sky objects in the sky ... which in spring means galaxies. With the night side of Earth well-placed for observations away from the Milky Way, distant galaxies that ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the ...

Such hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for star formation. Therefore, these cold gas structures are key to the conditions that enable star formation and are of ...

Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava) Breathtaking photos of the total lunar eclipse from earlier this month capture a glowing, blood red moon and star-studded heart of the Milky Way in the ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ... on data from China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...