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

Orion’s upper foot is Rigel, the seventh brightest star. Orion’s lower shoulder star is the red giant Betelgeuse, the 12th ...

This image shows narrow, spindle-like structures, called filaments, that act like rivers channeling material into the Serpens South star cluster, a group of more than 60 young stars that is forming in ...

Nearly 20 years before he became president, Illinois' favorite son was facing off against then-state Auditor James Shields ...

These stars are part of a nuclear star cluster that surrounds a supermassive black hole approximately 4 million times the ...

The map consists of 13 years of work totaling 200,000 images, thanks to the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope.

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Mars and the Moon are the only two places Prof Cox could imagine seeing anybody visit and begin to build a permanent presence ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College has resumed public viewing for the Fall. Weather permitting, students will open the Observatory on Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30. Check their web ...

"The Milky Way's satellite population is a unique combination of small satellites containing only older stars, and its two ...

But that doesn't necessarily mean planets are perfect spheres. "We call them round, but they're not really perfectly round, ...