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There’s a population of stars in the heart of our galaxy whipping around Sagittarius A* (the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole). Astronomers just found the closest, fastest one (so far). It’s called S4716 and it orbits Sag A*…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nearly six months after the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have started receiving images from the powerful telescope, showing the far reaches of the universe. NASA…

The Explore Scientific 305mm Ultra Light truss-tube Dobsonian is actually quite heavy, weighing nearly 30 kilograms. Image: Explore Scientific. The elegant simplicity of Isaac Newton’s two-mirror reflecting telescope design from 1668…

Most people don't have easy access to a view like this one. The International Dark-Sky Association declared Michigan's Top of the Pines an International Dark-Sky Park last year. Dark-sky places have policies…

Astronomers are a step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of 12 streams of stars orbiting within our galactic halo.…

For tens of millions of years, our newborn Universe was shrouded in hydrogen. Bit by bit, this vast mist was torn apart by the light of the very first stars in a dawn that defined the shape of the emerging cosmos.  Having a timeline for…

The very tiny motion of a small star has revealed the presence of a super-Earth exoplanet, orbiting at a distance that is close to habitable.Around a faint red dwarf called Ross 508, located just 36.5 light-years away (yet too dim to be…

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What’s going on with our galaxy?Astronomers have long suspected that 26,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, lurking behind the clouds of dust and gas that shroud the center of the Milky Way, there is a massive black…

Planets outside of our Solar System are rather dull things. So dull, we can only see them directly by sifting out a scattering of reflected rays amid the glare of their parent star. Even then, the best we can manage is a pinprick to…