Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will offer a varied plethora of programming to start off the new year.

On Wednesday, Schmidt Sciences - an organization funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt - ...

One story rose above all the others — new and older telescopes are putting us on the cusp of monumental discoveries about our universe.

To start off the new year this month’s Star Gazing Guide focuses on a constellation that even the armchair astronomer is ...

The Hubble Telescope appears as a tiny silhouette during a perfectly timed solar transit captured from Puerto Rico.

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space rocks within a nearby planetary system. When astronomers initially spotted a ...

When the solar system began to form, everything was chaos. A slew of rocky material was smashing together in a maelstrom that would eventually become the baby protoplanets, comets and asteroids that ...