The night sky is filled with constellations that help us navigate the stars, but not all constellations are created equal.

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations Perseus and Taurus. An ancient supernova could be the culprit.

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

How early missions like Pioneer and Voyager turned spacecraft into time capsules, carrying Earth's story across the stars.

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

On December 18, the beautiful celestial phenomena of the "companiment" moon in Bisuwu will appear in the sky. At that time, ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

In August, the most beautiful scenery and impressive celestial events are to be enjoyed before dawn—along with much more ...

August’s full moon arrives at 2:55 a.m. on Aug. 9. As it wanes, it will play spoiler to the annual Perseid meteor shower, which is predicted to peak in the early morning hours of Aug. 12 or Aug. 13.