According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

An hour after sunset, you'll find the constellation Leo the Lion pointing head-down toward the horizon in the southwest. The ...

Utilizing advanced imaging techniques, researchers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories determined that the ...

Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is a massive, mountainous, wild oasis in the middle of the city’s dense urban sprawl. Its real and cinematic history is pure joy to explore.

The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole eating a star. This happened far from the center of its galaxy. The event, ...

Sophisticated computational models let us examine objects such as supernova remnants in extraordinary detail and from every angle.

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

A combination of X-ray from NASA's Chandra observatory and radio data indicates that a galactic "fracture" was likely caused ...

Griffith Observatory held a party on Wednesday, May 14, celebrating its 90th anniversary, and the leaders who make sure the ...

Visitors to the Lake District can now journey into the cosmos at the region's first public observatory and planetarium, open now at Grizedale Forest.