In the Moon-like landscape of Hanle, the jet-black skies reveal otherworldly starry skies that lure travellers from far and ...

Explore seven of the best stargazing spots in the U.S. this summer, from deserts to mountains, before fall skies take over.

Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar ...

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space ...

The nights surrounding Aug. 29 are a great time to spot the stars of the famous 'Summer Triangle' asterism, bisected by the glowing band of the Milky Way, with an early-setting crescent moon providing ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the bright stars, identified as red dwarfs —are separated by 1,656 astronomical ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky. Spectators will have the best luck on cloud-free nights and in locations away from ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August across the United States.

A Milky Way Photography Workshop will be held Friday at Fort Griffin State Historic Site. Fort Griffin is one of the darkest locations in Texas, making it ideal for astrophotography. The workshop ...

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

Recent research has provided astronomers with unprecedented measurements of some of the most massive stars in the Milky Way, ...