The outskirts of the Milky Way offer a unique laboratory to study molecular clouds and star formation under metal-poor ...

In about 4.5 billion years, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. While it sounds like a cosmic ...

Astronomers have spotted something extraordinary in our galaxy—a huge, expanding bubble of gas and dust around a red ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. This discovery upends conventional wisdom about such tidal disruption ...

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

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

A Dartmouth-led study identifies potentially more that 300 small galaxies orbiting low-mass systems known as dwarf ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shares a long-exposure photograph that captured the curve of Earth, the glow of the planet's atmosphere, streaks of city lights and flashes of lightning. Hovering above it ...

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

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

First, let’s start with the good news. As with August stargazing any year, there’s still plenty of summer and great summer ...