Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... of those vast spiral arms of stars and dust clouds.

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... than the moon in the night sky. This form of explosion, known ...

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night ... and the stars will start ...