The bright band of the Milky Way and the faint glow of "zodiacal light" meet above the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert in ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

NGC 6910 is a bright open cluster in Cygnus the Swan, visible overnight as the Summer Triangle flies high around local ...

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...

The Milky Way Is Destined to Collide with Andromeda, and We Know What It Will Look Like Solar superflares, emotion-detecting artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and more in our ...