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

Exploding stars V462 Lupi and V572 Velorum are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. One has been spotted from the United States.

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 ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Named for the pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work on galaxy rotation helped prove the existence of dark matter, the ...

There’s a place in western North Carolina where the mountains ripple like waves on a blue-green ocean, where clouds cast dramatic shadows across ancient peaks, and where locals sometimes “accidentally ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

Wisconsin is an ideal place to travel this summer, with hikes, beaches, museums, and history sure to delight everyone in the family.

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

"Milky Way season," when the galaxy's bright center becomes easier to see from Earth, typically runs from February to October, according to Milky Way photography website Capture the Atlas.

Now, this decade-long belief is being challenged by new research that suggests the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be on a collision course after all. The study, published today in Nature ...