With a new moon coming on Monday, conditions should already be ideal for viewing in a dark area. Here’s a guide to making the most of a summer Milky Way-spotting session. A visualization of our ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

The Milky Way’s outer reaches are coming into view thanks to the JWST. Astronomers pointed the powerful space telescope to a ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us at a staggering ... it will grow larger in the heavens until it engulfs our entire view—at which point it will ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers studying the Milky Way's supermassive black hole have found "compelling evidence" that could finally help explain its mysterious past. Located 26,000 light-years ...

On a mountaintop in southern Brazil, a scaly creature with a “unique” color pattern swam through the river water. It ...

This was one of the more difficult images I have processed of the Milky Way. This summer season in Yellowstone I had planned ...