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 ...

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

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

Capture the Atlas, the Milky Way photography site, says that Milky Way season goes from February to October and can be visible between midnight and 5 a.m. The moon, however, plays a role on when to ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A new report on the U.S.'s readiness in the face of threats from space has revealed concerns about our vulnerability to major ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.