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 ...

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 ...

Two meteor showers and the return of the Milky Way make up the top astronomy events for July. Mark these events down on your ...

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

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

A new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy found that there is a 50-50 chance that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy could collide in the next few billion years. KXAN's space expert, ...

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

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

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

Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. ... No certainty of a Milky Way–Andromeda collision, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1.