Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch created a visual sensation for sky watchers Monday evening in Stanislaus County. The rocket ...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain were expected to continue pummeling the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states Wednesday, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA says its two stuck astronauts may return to Earth sooner under a plan to switch SpaceX capsules.

In contrast to Asimov's robots, “AI” is not a robotic uprising but rather an energy revolution—this energy revolution must ...