Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.

Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...

Below the Pleiades is Uranus. At magnitude 5.8 ... which includes the massive elliptical galaxy M87. Discovered in 1781, this magnitude 8.6 galaxy spans roughly 7’ and is located in northern ...

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...

Did you know that the sun is up for more hours this month than in August? August is summertime, and May is still spring, so it may not seem quite right.

The planet Uranus was the last gas giant to get the ... Some 32 million light-years away, a galaxy known as M74 or the "Phantom Galaxy" is aligned so we can look down on the full glory of its ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can expect a visually rich week from May 16 to 23, with deep-sky targets, ...

Water ice shapes the outer regions of our Solar System in profound ways, forming the thick crusts of moons like Europa and ...