This remarkable image, captured by Japan's Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, actually shows something much more special: an extremely rare triple-ring galaxy located about 800 million ...

University of Arizona astronomers are discovering unexpected information about one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way.

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

Astronomers have discovered a "dead star" neutron star is spinning at an incredible 716 times a second, making it the joint fastest-spinning cosmic body ever seen. Not only this, but the neutron ...

Stargazing can be as unpredictable as aurora-chasing, but once you’re settled under a dark night’s sky with a vast canopy of ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

A star cluster just outside the Milky Way known as Omega Centauri appears to have a black hole at its center according to new ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...