This quiz will take you on a journey through the legends, locations, and logic behind the constellations we know and love.

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

The earliest astronomers were careful observers of patterns.

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...

A very surprising celestial map drawn on elk skin continues to intrigue researchers nearly a century after its rediscovery.

Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have uncovered the intricate magnetic heartbeat of a distant star remarkably similar to our own Sun—but much younger and more active.

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...