Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

A Platte County man who sexually abused a 5-year-old girl has been sentenced to more than three-and-a-half decades in prison.

From the Show Me State to the stars, Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble is credited with ...

NASA officials dismissed theories that the interstellar 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spaceship while dropping new photos of the ...

A flying piece of cosmic rock or an alien threat? Comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through our solar system and captivating ...