The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above ...

Ursa Major III was considered a dark matter galaxy, but was found to be a compact star cluster with a dense core of black ...

A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

As the temperature dropped, the vast night sky became a stage for distant planets and the steady glow of thousands of stars.

A photographer from Mangalore shared his first experience of witnessing the Milky Way and capturing it with long-exposure photos.

In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system. These ...