The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

An invisible monster lurks beyond the stars of the constellation Sagittarius near the border with Scorpius: a supermassive black hole, designated as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star”), ...

If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy, you'll have that opportunity on Fourth of July weekend. "The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

Greetings everyone! We’ve lost three of the five visible planets to the sun’s glare with only Jupiter remaining in the ...

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...