In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

A recent study on ancient Egyptian imagery suggests rare drawings of the sky goddess Nut represent the earliest visualization ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

Bode's Galaxy has an apparent magnitude of +6.94, making it one of the brightest galaxies visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness ...

NASA has launched a new project that lets everyday people team up with scientists to explore space. The goal is simple: help ...

It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) offers a chance to see a galaxy collision occurring in the sky. Here's how to view this ...