MOST is unlike any spectroscope ever built. It can unravel the light of 2,400 celestial objects simultaneously into 18,000 color components.

A small asteroid measuring roughly 19 meters across has quietly shadowed Earth for approximately 65 years, orbiting alongside ...

A new survey of the Milky Way has unveiled billions of celestial objects in our galaxy's plane. The survey was taken using the Dark Energy Camera, which the US Department of Energy built, and it ...

Meet Z 229-15, a celestial object that depending on how you feel, could be one of three different things – all at once. Shared as the European Space Agency's "Picture of the Week" for the week of ...

The detection of a potentially rocky world around a nearby star opens up unprecedented prospects for the atmospheric ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object - perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely ...

An astronomical society has been awarded funding to help bring the wonders of the night sky closer to the community.