The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...

NASA’s Roman Telescope could finally expose the Milky Way’s hidden population of invisible neutron stars. Astronomers believe ...

There may be a billion neutron stars scattered across the Milky Way, and almost none of them have ever been seen. These ultra ...

A dying star has never looked so lovely. The Gemini North Telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak, Mauna Kea, captured the star ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was built to study the first stars and galaxies that formed in the universe. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez illustration When astronomers pointed ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed an infant star 20 times larger than the sun setting interstellar clouds ablaze. The source of this cosmic conflagration is a stellar jet ...

A telescope ranch in rural Texas makes advanced sky observation possible without physically visiting an observatory.

From remote peaks to observatory sites, these North Carolina stargazing spots reveal brilliant night skies and cosmic views.

Every year for a week, when the sun sets over the 1,300-acre Prude Ranch, a historic Fort Davis cattle ranch established in ...