Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend over California when the Milky Way appears in the night ...

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 ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

The approximate location of the summer Milky Way is shown on the map, between the two white lines and within the 'Summer Triangle' of three stars. What we are seeing when looking at the Milky Way is ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

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

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability ...

Astronomers face a data deluge from observatories like Vera Rubin — simulated skies may be key to training algorithms to keep ...

As summer deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a familiar constellation rises with the galactic core of the Milky Way each ...

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