"Core season" for the Milky Way has arrived, with our galaxy visible all night as a band of light arching across the sky.

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

The best news? Viewers in prime dark sky locations don’t need high-tech telescopes or even binoculars to stargaze this summer ...

The long-proposed Milky Way and Andromeda galactic merger might not be as certain as astronomers previously believed.

New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and its nearest major galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy ...

Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological masterpiece” of Coyote Buttes, Utah to the sandstone terrain of desolate Ennedi, ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.