"Milky Way season," when the galaxy's bright center becomes easier to see from Earth, typically runs from February to October ...

The billions of stars that comprise the Milky Way should be visible in the night sky until the end of the month. Before you go searching the night time skies or pull an all-nighte ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has discovered an extremely rare pulsar that gets partially blocked by its companion ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations Perseus and Taurus. An ancient supernova could be the culprit.

Also known as the enigmatic "hidden galaxy," IC 342 is a big barred spiral with low surface brightness in the constellation ...

Stargazers are in for a celestial treat as our galaxy becomes more visible in late May skies. The increased visibility of the ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

Amazon has slashed the prices of nearly all of its chocolate boxes as part of the online retailer's Everyday Essentials week, ...

The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025 as the band ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

The Dusty Hand spans some 80,000 light-years across, making it somewhat smaller than the Milky Way, and has sported two ...