The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025 as the band ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several ...

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

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

The Milky Way got its name because from our perspective on Earth. It appears as a faint band of light stretching across the ...

Astronomers have identified Zhúlóng, a spiral galaxy existing 12.8 billion years ago, using the James Webb Space Telescope.

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

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

Because of light pollution, 80% of U.S. residents typically can’t see the Milky Way, according to LiveScience.com, a science news publication. The galaxy’s bright core will be easier to see and higher ...