It's easy to get lost in a clear night sky full of stars. It can feel like a random mess of lights without a little guidance.

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

There isn't much functionality built into this device; its purpose is to project an image of the Northern constellations onto any surface. With a turn of the outer ring, you can add a star map ...

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

Whether it's the upcoming planetary parade in late February, the Gamma Normid meteor shower in March or the stars and beyond ... having some of the best astronomy gear to hand.

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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 ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...