Two meteor showers and the return of the Milky Way make up the top astronomy events for July. Mark these events down on your ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

July will kick off with colorful flashes of light during Independence Day celebrations across the United States, but the ...

A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Researchers discover high-velocity clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These clouds are moving at speeds significantly ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

Until the 1920s, it was common to refer to the Milky Way as “the galaxy,” i.e. the one and only. The Milky Way was so vast that it was thought to contain the entire physical Universe.