Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...

August's full moon, the sturgeon moon, will be at its peak Aug. 9. The Perseids meteor shower peaks Aug. 12-13 but the full moon may make them hard to see. One of the easiest planetary nebulas to ...

This star factory is the largest and brightest in its host galaxy. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in ...