Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Look east before sunrise on Saturday to catch bright Venus and the Pleiades star cluster in a beautiful early-morning ...

A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

For folks in the United States, July evenings mean 4th of July fireworks. While you're waiting for the show, be sure to watch ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the sky ...

An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian astronomer after research revealed she was the first woman at the ...

Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the +0.6-magnitude planet is low in the west-northwest and sets during twilight about 1.5 ...

The emergence of CubeSats as a viable means for realizing satellite networks at low costs has given rise to ubiquitous cyber–physical systems spanning air, ground, and space, in what is being ...