Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

July will kick off with colorful flashes of light during Independence Day celebrations across the United States, but the ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Galaxy M83. An optical image of M83. ©2025 ESO CC-BY-ND Researchers discover high-velocity clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy ...

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

The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about 250,000 miles per hour (400,000 kph), setting up a possible future ...

Researchers discover high-velocity clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These clouds are moving at speeds significantly ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

But in our new study published in Nature Astronomy, led by Till Sawala from the University of Helsinki, we find the Milky Way's future might not be as certain previously assumed.