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The constellation NGC 2467 looks like a skull and crossbones.

Many people enjoy gazing at the night sky, and once in a while, something up there appears to look right back at us.

A huge star system 7,500 light-years away is shooting out radiation at superhigh speeds.

Astronomers have captured a striking new image of the Tarantula Nebula that highlights its abundance of stars and stunning luminosity.

The Running Man Nebula, also known as NGC 1977, vaguely resembles a colorful space ghost sprinting through the stars in the Orion constellation.

When our sun finally goes out, what will it look like?

Google's latest homepage Doodle celebrates Guillermo Haro, a Mexican astronomer who in 1959 became the first Mexican elected to the Royal Astronomical Society.

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped views of 93 deep-sky objects from French astronomer Charles Messier's famous list. Here are some of the most spectacular.

Amateur astronomers had 12 spectacular new images to look to during this year's Messier marathon, a skywatching challenge that happened on the weekend of March 17 and 18.

A new simulation explains the hole at the center of the Rosette Nebula that gives the cloud of interstellar gas and dust its distinctive rose-like shape.