The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

How do you map something you can’t see? For astronomers studying the Milky Way, the answer lies in radio waves-the very lowest frequencies that slip past the dust and gas obscuring our galaxy’s heart.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest ...

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could ...

Epic sky. Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. This shot was ...

A group of astronomers has discovered the smallest, dimmest satellite galaxy bordering the Milky Way’s nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. The itsy-bitsy satellite galaxy is named ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and beautiful, star-studded Milky Way. Breathtaking photos of the total lunar ...