Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has unraveled the complex structure of our Milky Way galaxy. Assuming ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

Astronomers have done just that, releasing an ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor galaxy on Wednesday obtained with 50 hours of observations using one of the world's biggest telescopes, the European ...

Dubai Astronomy Group will host a Milky Way observation event on Saturday June 21 in Al Quaa Desert, Abu Dhabi. Stargazers ...

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...