Find out where to catch the Milky Way's appearance in the night sky as it becomes more visible with the 2025 summer ...

With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May, especially as the new moon makes the skies dark.

The peak period to view the Milky Way will be from Tuesday, May 20, to Friday, May 30. "The galaxy's bright core becomes ...

The discovery of Zhúlóng, an ultramassive spiral galaxy observed as it appeared just 12.8 billion years ago, challenges ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...

Illinois residents will soon get the chance to see the bright band of the Milky Way Galaxy, which isn’t usually very visible ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's ...

Around 13.8 billion years ago, a tiny but dense fireball gave birth to the vast cosmos that holds trillions of galaxies, ...

California stargazers will soon be able to witness a dazzling celestial sight composed of billions of stars. In late May, the ...