Explore Nevada’s top stargazing spots, from remote desert landscapes to dark sky parks, perfect for travelers seeking ...

The unappreciated dung, or scarab beetle, an insect that evolved about 130 million years ago, must accomplish its nocturnal ...

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

Embark on a journey of discovery beneath the stars with this mesmerizing time-lapse of the Milky Way, where the night sky ...

"Even though it's the first time we've seen a galaxy like this, we think that there could be many more out there." ...

An international team led by researchers from the University of Cologne has solved the mystery of an extraordinary phenomenon known as the "Diamond Ring" in the star-forming region Cygnus X, a huge, ...

In spring, the nearby bayside meadow is covered with beach plum blossoms. It looks like snow. The white fields fade, and a ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...