"Milky Way season," when the galaxy's bright center becomes easier to see from Earth, typically runs from February to October ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025 as the band ...

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...

The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025. Here's how to ...

Stargazers are in for a celestial treat as our galaxy becomes more visible in late May skies. The increased visibility of the ...

Observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

Also known as the enigmatic "hidden galaxy," IC 342 is a big barred spiral with low surface brightness in the constellation ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has discovered an extremely rare pulsar that gets partially blocked by its companion ...

A research team led by Han Jinlin from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a rare millisecond pulsar using China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...