A century ago, Edwin Hubble unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term habitability.

A newly discovered neutron star is behaving so strangely that it may alter our understanding of the dense remains left behind ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

The South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland is one of the world's leading sites for optical and infrared ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

The competition is organized by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, England, in association with BBC Sky at Night ...