Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the ...

Sunlight scatters off the mingled dust and sets it aglow. It's brighter nearer the horizon because we're looking more closely ...

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...