It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

July’s rare meteor shower combo of Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids lights the sky with Milky Way ...

Two astronomy facts about July may go against your impressions. First, the days are getting shorter, albeit slowly for now. As July begins, we have lost four minutes from the ...

Astronomers suggest Earth lies in a giant cosmic void, possibly explaining faster local expansion and offering clues to ...

NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but beyond ...

Dr Wang’s research focuses on the ‘Local Group’ (a pair of dark matter halo that includes our Milky Way and its neighbour Andromeda) and how it is linked to the larger cosmic web, a vast network of ...

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

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

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, says Abigail Beall ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...