Today's photo of the day, “Milky Way and Haleakala,” comes to us via Todd Kozan. Send your best photos from Maui County to [email protected] for a chance to see them featured on our ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

A view of the sun setting below the clouds on the top of Haleakala, a volcano on the island of Maui in Hawaii. (Kelsey Jukam/Courthouse News) (CN) — A Maui court has ruled that the historic Haleakala ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our galaxy. As part of Expedition 72, Pettit and his team conduct crucial ...

Back in the 19 nineties, astronomers started to see growing evidence that the universe was accelerating. We thought gravity would slow things down so I could throw up *** ball. Gravity is gonna ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...