With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May, especially as the new moon makes the skies dark.

Find out where to catch the Milky Way's appearance in the night sky as it becomes more visible with the 2025 summer ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

The peak period to view the Milky Way will be from Tuesday, May 20, to Friday, May 30. "The galaxy's bright core becomes ...

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and ...

The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months after it got off the ground ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever seen.

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests. Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky ...