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 ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

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

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

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 ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

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 ...

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

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the ...

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 ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.