Jupiter is now well up in the east in the early evening, so we're now able to see the two brightest planets (Venus and ...

Hubble captures LMC's interaction with the Milky Way’s halo. Surprising findings show LMC’s compact gas halo. Ram-pressure ...

Lawmakers were told light pollution is increasing in New Mexico and the Night Sky Protection Act needs to be updated.

Scientists uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

ANSWER: Very big!! The Milky Way Galaxy is one of billions of galaxies in the known universe. The Milky Way is a spiral ...

Did you know that the beautiful Milky Way might soon disappear from our night sky? Light pollution, caused by all the bright ...

The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...