Cris Collinsworth made everyone watching "Sunday Night Football" cringe on Sunday evening. The former Cincinnati Bengals wide ...

Astronomers map cosmic dust in the Milky Way, aiding in tracing next-gen star formation locations using the Gaia mission and ...

Secrets of the Milky Way - Within the Milky Way you’ll find scattered dark regions that puzzled eighteenth-century astronomer William Herschel, Nigel Henbest writes ...

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 ...

September is the Autumnal Equinox — the beginning of fall — in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s a look at “What’s up in the sky” in the D.C. region this month.

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 ...

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

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. These galaxies are more than just neighbors: They're gravitationally bound. And for the ...

For over a decade, researchers have suggested a high possibility of our Milky Way galaxy smashing into neighboring galaxy Andromeda around 5 billion years from now. The collision would merge the two ...