Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

The observatory’s software will automatically compare new images with older ones and generate an estimated 10 million alerts ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

On moonless spring nights in Australia, a billion tiny voyagers take to the sky. They lift from the parched lowlands, propelled not by instinct alone, but rather most remarkably by a map written in ...

With more Dark Sky Places than anywhere else in the world, Utah’s high deserts are giving visitors front-row seats to the ...

The Milky Way galaxy is around 100,000 light-years in diameter, containing our solar system and many other objects. Our solar system orbits the galaxy's center, taking about 250 million years to ...

Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” ...

Now Is The Best Time To See The Milky Way’s Glowing Core In All Its Glory Escape the city lights and see something incredible this June. Dr. Katie Spalding ...

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...

They explored how the Milky Way, Andromeda, and their significant satellite galaxies, like M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), interact gravitationally. Possible future MW-M31 orbits.