There are designated areas in the U.S. where the night sky is so crystal clear that you can see the Milky Way galaxy ...

A stronomers have found more evidence that there is a massive ripple traveling through the Milky Way. They have found evidence that stars at the edge of the galactic disk are moving like people doing ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to look for an ...

The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum week to check out the beautiful summer Milky Way.

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly components—gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the interstellar medium.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new images of Sagittarius B2, the largest star-forming cloud near the Milky ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene of a massive stellar supernova explosion. What makes this system even more spectacular is ...

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

After 545 entries from 155 photographers in 35 countries, the winners of this year’s Astrophotography Prize Photographer of ...

Astronomers have recently made a groundbreaking discovery that illuminates the enigmatic processes of star formation in the most remote regions of our galaxy. Utilizing the cutting-edge Atacama Large ...