Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

Scientists have long studied the vast and mysterious web-like structure of our universe, filled with clusters, filaments, and ...

August’s full moon, known as the Sturgeon Moon, rises on Saturday night, glowing low in the southeast shortly after sunset.

Milky Way images from NASA’s Hubble Telescope show stars, nebulae, and galaxies., Technology & Science, Times Now ...

Did you know that nearly 80% of the world’s population lives under light-polluted skies, unable to see the Milky Way with the ...

A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

"Once you do, it's just spectacular," said Aileen O'Donoghue, astronomer with St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky ...

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using ...

GOBBLE GOBBLE The young Milky Way, shown in an artist’s impression, swallowed a smaller galaxy about 10 billion years ago. The smaller galaxy’s stars are shown with yellow arrows depicting ...

The “Milky Way window” in August, therefore, is when the night skies are free from bright moonlight. That’s always going to be between Last Quarter Moon and a few days after New Moon.