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

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

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

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

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

Our Milky Way is one of more than 100 galaxies bound together by gravity.

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

Astronomers identified what they believed was a lone brown dwarf orbiting a bright single star. Then they looked more closely.

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

A rare black moon will happen tonight Aug. 22-23. Don't worry too much if you miss it, although it won't happen again for ...

The findings, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, come from a team led by Mark Siebert of Chalmers. Using ...