On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon ...

When I was invited to the release of Sydney Salmon’s new album one Friday afternoon at the African Jazz Village inside the Ghion Hotel, I was unsure what ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

The Geminid meteor shower put on a dazzling cosmic firework show when it peaked overnight on Dec. 13 as shards of the solar ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

The discovery of a distant, well-structured spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has astounded scientists, revealing new insights ...

"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But Virgil transforms into the host of a heavily obscured supermassive black hole, pouring out immense ...

Staerkel Planetarium brings the beauty of the night sky indoors, blending astronomy, mythology and storytelling.

Yet, even darkness offers some unique blessings. In her book, "In Praise of the Dark," the Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor writes ...