As the Qixi Festival approaches on August 29, many will reflect on the ancient myth of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, who are separated by the Milky Way and can only reunite once a year. However, in ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

A groundbreaking study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center 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 ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are helping to lead planning efforts for NASA’s next major space telescope ...

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need a ton of crazy equipment or fancy gear to shoot the night sky. Grab a sturdy ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...

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

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