Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August across the United States.

The 71st Princess Kay of the Milky Way dropped by KARE 11. The crowning will happening at 8 p.m. on the Bandshell of the ...

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system. These ...

The Milky Way got its name because from our perspective on Earth, it appears as a faint, milky band of light stretching across the sky. When is the best time to see it from Massachusetts?

Chinese scientists have, for the first time worldwide, made an important astronomical discovery in stellar observation, which provides a new method for studying the formation and evolution of the ...

A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...

The bright band of the Milky Way and the faint glow of "zodiacal light" meet above the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert in ...