The planetarium, located at 100 Center Ave., is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the ...

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been unmasked in all its enormous, invisible glory.

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers, who have uncovered a massive molecular cloud located just 300 ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

This wreckage has a ring-like structure that is around 26 light-years in diameter — that's wide enough to fit the entire solar system across it about nine times! One of the mysteries that ...