With cardboard caps on their heads, dung beetles rolling their balls showed how they find their way using the Milky Way.

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

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

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

The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to shine every ...

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

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...

A cone of zodiacal light intersects the iconic Milky Way, creating an x-shape in the night sky. NOIRLab highlighted this ...

Scientists think the strange orbits of stars near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, might be due to a past collision.

New research suggests that the Milky Way should be surrounded by as many as 100 undetected tiny and faint "orphan" galaxy companions.

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There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers.