The next full moon, known as the Snow Moon, is set to rise over Illinois on February 1. Here's how to catch a glimpse.

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

Stargazing dreams come true at this Pennsylvania park, with pitch-dark skies that reveal the Milky Way in stunning detail.

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of ...

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it is far more complex than previously ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

A monstrous galaxy named Inkathazo with plasma jets 32 times larger than the Milky Way has been discovered, challenging ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...