The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...

Jupiter is now well up in the east in the early evening, so we're now able to see the two brightest planets (Venus and ...

Scientists uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.