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

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

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

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

Hungry to see what lies beyond Earth, Radhika Aligh heads to South America to see if she can discover celestial objects ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director ...

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.

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

This week in Skywatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius ...

The Big Cypress National Preserve is home to Alligator Alcatraz, which is causing light pollution in one of the first dark skies locations east.

The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But exactly where are we in this vast galaxy? The Milky Way is a massive ...