Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Amateur astronomers and beginners will find the Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope useful for capturing shots of the night sky with the ...

I didn't know I had missed seeing the stars until I moved to Rum. Here, in the heart of Scotland’s first and only Dark Sky Sanctuary, the night ...

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Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...