If you're seated while reading these words — as I am writing them — you're most likely convinced that you and the room around ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way for the ...

One aspect that worked so well about Farscape is that across four seasons of eighty-eight episodes, the show amazingly melded the stakes of an epic space opera with an episodic sci-fi series. The plot ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency radio light, revealing a spectacular realm ...

Jupiter is still a month from opposition, rising about 9 p.m. in the NE as November begins, and right after sunset by Thanksgiving. Saturn is the only planetary highlight in the evening now, in ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

Astronomers have created the most detailed low-frequency map of the Milky Way, revealing otherwise hidden stars and ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...