Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. However, most of them are effectively ...

A group of Queen’s students is designing and building a radio telescope to be launched to the stratosphere aboard a football field-sized balloon.

- Lagoon Nebula (M8) is an emission nebula in Sagittarius.

NASA is taking a bold step to safeguard Earth from cosmic threats with its NEO Surveyor mission. The near-Earth object (NEO) ...

Early birds are in for a celestial treat this week as the Eta Aquariid meteor shower reaches its peak.Related video above: ...

The Cincinnati Public Library teamed up with astronomer Dean Regas to let patrons check out telescopes. The popular program ...

The atmosphere is between 5 million and 10 million times thinner than Earth's atmosphere. A very small body, far from the sun ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by ...

The Shoreline Amateur Astronomical Association is hosting National Astronomy Day with telescope viewing, a scale model of the ...