In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

An study has found evidence suggesting that Ursa Major II is actually a compact star cluster containing a black hole core.

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

The Milky Way Is Destined to Collide with Andromeda, and We Know What It Will Look Like Solar superflares, emotion-detecting artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and more in our ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky ...

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

"This doesn’t mean that as soon as the sun goes down you can see the Milky Way," writes Dan Zafra, co-founder of Capture the Atlas. "Even if it’s in the sky, the Milky Way will be barely ...

You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius ...