A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy of our own Milky Way, harbors a heretofore unconfirmed supermassive black ...

Star gazers in the Florida Keys were treated to some Milky Way magic on Monday. The timelapse video shows a<a ...

Learn about NASA's SPHEREx mission, which will launch on March 7, 2025 to study the universe's early history and search the ...

However, our own Milky Way is on a path to collide with its giant neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. The next galactic merger of roughly 250 billion stars moving through space at high speed will ... it ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...

It’s also when the Milky Way lines up with Erie Street ... an astronomer finds a universe of real stars In November, Bisbee was certified by Dark Sky International, an organization that ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than ...

National parks and designated Dark Sky Places offer excellent opportunities ... she saw her first shooting star. "The Milky Way seemed like a million of stars, it was beautiful, it was incredible ...