The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

As part of this, the research team calculated the supernova rate within 20 parsecs of the Sun, or approximately 65 ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse was captured by the Herschel Space Observatory. There are only two nearby stars that could go supernova within the next million years or so: Antares and Betelgeuse.

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history.

When the Boston Red Sox signed All-Star and Gold Glove third baseman Alex Bregman in free agency this offseason, it was a pretty significant move in their quest to become relevant in the American ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

The C Reds shopped closer Alexis Díaz's name in trade talks over the winter with no takers. Then they added 9th-inning depth.