Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us.” With this sentence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Kai ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from 11.1 billion years ago has been discovered, showing star-forming activity and gas ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

Astronomers capture the universe’s brightest era, revealing when galaxies like the Milky Way first formed and began to shine.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

June sky shows planets before sunrise, Mars near Regulus, the glowing Milky Way, and the solstice with shifting daylight hours.

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...