But it is even stranger to realize that you are making two simultaneous journeys — around the sun and through the Milky Way. Just like the moon orbits Earth and our planet orbits the sun ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with ...

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Thursday, Oct. 31, with sky charts, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — with a little help from the Hubble Space Telescope — may have found a family of ...

Researchers from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ) are throwing shade at the now iconic image of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history ... population of 20 stars currently orbiting in the vicinity of the Sun. Unlike the Sun, however, these stars have almost no metals.

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish ...

the Milky Way’s largest super star cluster, located 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Ara. This massive cluster, with stars up to 2,000 times larger than the Sun, has a total mass ...

The sweep of the Milky Way arcs from the southwest horizon, deepening at nightfall, close to 7:30 p.m. Find summer stars and ...