For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way would collide with the Andromeda galaxy in four to five billion years. This scientific illustration depicts Earth's horizon four billion years in the ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

IMAGE: An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world ...

NASA has shared what people should be looking out for in the night sky throughout the month of June. Spectacular sights from planets, the galaxy and the solstice all happen in the coming weeks. Planet ...

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June's full moon, nicknamed the strawberry moon, will shine brightly on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The moon will be at its fullest at 3:44 a.m. ET Wednesday but will still appear bright and ...

One out of every five Sun-like stars in our galaxy has an Earth-like planet in orbit, according to an exciting new analysis of data collected from NASA's Kepler telescope. The Kepler, which recently ...