A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...

What's in the middle of the Milky Way? In our neck of the cosmos, everything revolves around a supermassive black hole.

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

A photographer from Mangalore shared his first experience of witnessing the Milky Way and capturing it with long-exposure ...

With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

Idaho stargazers can spot two meteor showers, a full moon and more in the sky in August. While the Perseids blaze their ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

Mangalore-based photographer Brijesh Naik's Instagram video of the Milky Way captivated viewers, sparking nostalgia on social ...

The Milky Way is readily visible without the use of a telescope or high-powered binoculars. But if you have them, magnification devices will let you get a closer look at various points of interest.

The Milky Way's band arches over the Cerro Pachón mountaintop, as if connecting the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope (on the left) with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (on the right).

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated ...

Ten billion years ago, the Milky Way encountered another galaxy in the vast emptiness of space, and consumed it. Dubbed Gaia-Enceladus by astronomers, this stranger was roughly one-quarter the ...