Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

The fascination with figuring out the part that the Milky Way may have played in the culture and religion of ancient Egypt ...

Astronomers taking a close look at our nearest neighbor galaxy have made a highly unusual and model-challenging discovery; ...

Welcome to the May night sky. Now we are deep into the springtime in the northern hemisphere, with its warmer but shorter ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Telescopes provide closeup views of Jupiter and its four largest moons discovered by Galileo, and of Mars. Although Mars is ...

Scientists have uncovered astonishing ancient Egyptian imagery that hints at a cosmic connection, shedding new light on the ...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

Alexandria Echo Press reporter Lisa Johnson and Astro Bob talk about the Milky Way, galaxies in Virgo, and Bob's latest award ...

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...