With a new moon coming on Monday, conditions should already be ideal for viewing in a dark area. Here’s a guide to making the most of a summer Milky Way-spotting session. A visualization of our ...

It looks like a flat stripe because we are viewing it from within its disk; if we were able to get above the Milky Way, it would look like an enormous spiral about 100,000 light years across.

Matthew Dominick/NASA A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has shared a breathtaking time-lapse video featuring Earth, an aurora, the Milky Way, and the station itself.

What he saw gave him chills. In a hypothetical view from Earth, the warped Milky Way and Andromeda (on right) after their initial collision. Credit: NASA The Milky Way and Andromeda collision Such ...

The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us at a staggering ... it will grow larger in the heavens until it engulfs our entire view—at which point it will ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

"Clusters rich in red supergiants are very rare and tend to be very far away, but they play a crucial role in understanding key aspects in the evolution of massive stars." In the past, map makers ...

For nearly two decades, astronomers have been asserting that someday, our galaxy will collide with the galaxy Andromeda, and the two will merge. Recently, a group of scientists has challenged the ...

Pegasus is located in the Andromeda Galaxy, also called Messier 31, which is the Milky Way’s closest neighbour at about 2,480,000 light-years away from Earth. As such, Andromeda is one of the ...

(CNN) — An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and reach intergalactic space, new research has ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...