Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

In a world-first discovery, researchers have shown that Australia's iconic Bogong moth uses constellations of stars and the ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...

The Bogong moth migrates 1,000 km, using stars in the Milky Way for navigation, a first for insects. They sense Earth's ...

June offers a celestial spectacle, starting with the Milky Way's rise in dark skies. Venus shines brightly in the early ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...

Scenes from nebulas in the Milky Way and a cluster of galaxies are a teaser of how the observatory will transform astronomy, ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 kilometers from Australian plains to mountain caves to escape the summer heat. The stars may help them get there.