"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low-mass star and is located about 3,200 light-years away from Earth, ...

June 18, 2025 Credit: DALLE. Scientists have created digital “twins” of our Milky Way galaxy to investigate one of the biggest puzzles in the universe: dark matter.

This suggests that moths may key into both the brightest part of the Milky Way (such as the Carina Nebula) and its overall shape. “The most exciting aspect of this is truly the scale of ...

For the last hundred years, pollution from artificial light has seeped into the night sky and wildlife are suffering. While light pollution is still growing at a rate of 10% every year, insects ...

Photographer captures the Milky Way in one of the UK's darkest places Link Copied! For the last hundred years, pollution from artificial light has seeped into the night sky and wildlife are suffering.

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study complicates the story.

They explored how the Milky Way, Andromeda, and their significant satellite galaxies, like M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), interact gravitationally. Possible future MW-M31 orbits.