For 75 years, scientists have consistently pondered the Fermi Paradox, which asks why we don’t hear from other civilizations ...

A photograph of the Milky Way taken on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea by Polish astrophotographer Marzena Rogozińska has been named ...

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...

WASHINGTON - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is ...

Also known as the enigmatic "hidden galaxy," IC 342 is a big barred spiral with low surface brightness in the constellation ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer – or SPHEREx – is a two-year ...

"As a child, I could look up at night and easily see the ribbon of the Milky Way stretching across the sky. Today, we're ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

Astronomers have captured images of two galaxies, each comparable in size to the Milky Way, on a collision course, resembling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...