Hubble’s image of the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals a cotton candy-like cloudscape using light our eyes can’t see, like ultraviolet and infrared. The result is both beautiful and informative. NASA ...

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

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

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

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

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Laura Coffey went on a quest to find the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus ...

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 ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...