North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere. This week: bright planets at dusk and dawn ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

Euclid is on a mission to chart one-third of the sky in the hopes of shedding light on the enduring mysteries of dark matter ...

Planets, shooting stars and more will be visible in the California sky in July.

A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn's rings at a new angle.

The ESA's dark universe spacecraft Euclid has studied the heart of the Milky Way, creating the largest and most detailed ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now think ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers have turned their attention to the evolution of metallicity in the Milky ...

The European Space Agency releases the most detailed image of the Milky Way's center, the galactic bulge, in visible light. It was taken by the Euclid telescope.

Planet hunters and stargazers will both benefit from the new image, which was released after 26 hours of deep-space observations.