The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

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

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it is monitoring an unidentified object alongside Russia identified only as A11pl3Z as it hurtles at astonishing speed from outside the Milky Way ...

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

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

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

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has detected what could be only the third known object to enter our solar system from ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912. But new ...