What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

"Orion's allegations were sufficient to allege a cause of action for conspiracy or aiding and abetting a fraudulent transfer, ...

Amateur astronomers who have purchased telescopes from leading suppliers in the U.S. may be entitled to a payment from a ...

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black ...

An asteroid the width of Manhattan will be close enough to Earth tonight to be seen with binoculars. The good news is that the word "close" — like all things astronomical — is relative.

Winter skies can be the clearest of the year and the richest in stars. Here are some of the constellations and planets to ...

Greetings, stargazers. A prominent winter constellation is Taurus, the bull. It is particularly easy to find this month, because Jupiter is right in the middle of it. At magnitude -2.68, Jupiter will ...

The large asteroid 887 Alinda, more than 4 km wide, is approaching the Earth as close as possible. Such close contact is the ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...