Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

The Sombrero galaxy has long had a place in astronomical history as an intriguing object. The first written record of this ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

Described by Capture the Atlas as an "extraordinary milestone," the image One in a Billion, was captured by NASA astronaut ...

We see at most 3% of the universe,” said Pamela Gay of the Planetary Science Institute, citing a mind-boggling constraint ...

Why it's so special: If you need an excuse to visit the Southern Hemisphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has just ... the Southern Hemisphere. This dense star field appears as a big, fuzzy patch in the ...

Indeed, through all of these years I given scores of presentations in Hayden's famous domed Space Theater ... the difference between a star and a planet in the night sky is that planets do not ...

A trifecta of stargazing events could be visible in space in the coming ... and look up at the night sky," Henry Throop, a planetary scientist at NASA, told ABC News. Stars can be seen in the ...

How to see multiple phenomenons happening in space ... star' could flare up for the first time in 80 years on Halloween "Right now is a great time to go outside and look up at the night sky ...

Back in 1946, astronomers watched as a new star suddenly appeared in the night sky, only to fade away a ... Project Scientist for the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope that orbits the Earth.