A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

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Did you know that the beautiful Milky Way might soon disappear from our night sky? Light pollution, caused by all the bright lights in cities, is making the stars harder to see. Scientists say that in ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

This Friday night will be clear, so I highly encourage you to go out and look to the east as the moon rises. It will have ...

Before the newly refurbished and improved planetarium is opened to the public in February, select guests were invited to experience some of what the new facility can offer, and were blown away by what ...

The lines represent the Hubble Space Telescope’s view from its orbit around ... encounter with the Milky Way galaxy’s gaseous ...

Peruvian Indigenous spirituality joins Spanish Catholicism, the latter being cemented onto what was already there. A ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

(As a side note with a faith connection ... Thus, VISTA’s infrared camera can see into the Milky Way’s most hidden places, opening a unique window onto our galactic surroundings. This window reveals ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

My recent trip to China felt like reconnecting with an old friend -- familiar yet filled with fresh discoveries From the electric vibe of Shanghai to ...