The bright band of the Milky Way and the faint glow of "zodiacal light" meet above the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert in ...

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

A team of international astronomers has unveiled a massive, previously unknown cloud of gas and dust streaming toward the ...

The Milky Way Is Destined to Collide with Andromeda, and We Know What It Will Look Like Solar superflares, emotion-detecting artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and more in our ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky ...

An study has found evidence suggesting that Ursa Major II is actually a compact star cluster containing a black hole core.

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius ...