What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

The stars aligned for the planetarium's dome to become the backdrop for four readings of 'REDshift,' by playwright Chalmers ...

With a focus on improving air quality in the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) area, a comprehensive Deep Cleaning Drive has been initiated. The campaign, which began on December 30 ...

Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The worst of the deep freeze will be centered on the Ohio Valley and northern Missouri next week, according to Commodity Weather Group LLC. Cincinnati’s high is forecast to reach only 17F on Jan. 8.

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe survived a record-breaking closest approach to the sun on Dec. 24, flying just 3.8 million miles above the star's surface while hurtling through the solar atmosphere at ...