"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

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

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

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

To make this happen, scientists collected about 200,000 images between 2010 and 2023. The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within ...

The team started making the map in 2010 and finished taking images for it in 2023. Over that 13-year span, astronomers took over 200,000 images across 420 nights to map as much of the Milky Way as ...

Vía Láctea is the Latin name for the Milky Way. The total area of the sky mapped is equal in size to 8,600 full moons that include an estimated 10 times more galactic objects than the team’s ...

The Milky Way could be coming to a sky near you. The billions of stars comprising our home galaxy should appear especially vibrant in late-May as the band arcs across the night sky.

You’ll have to wait until the sky is quite dark to begin our Milky Way Summer Road Trip, which means staying up or getting up at round 1 am. Then, facing the northeast, you’ll see a thumbnail ...