The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

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

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...

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

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

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to oblivion ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...