Stargazing dreams come true at this Pennsylvania park, with pitch-dark skies that reveal the Milky Way in stunning detail.

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere.

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...