A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

In a captivating photograph by astrophotographer Petr Horálek, a rare and beautiful phenomenon unfolds over the skies of ...

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

An study has found evidence suggesting that Ursa Major II is actually a compact star cluster containing a black hole core.

This week in Skywatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius ...

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky ...

Viewing with the aid of 10x50 binoculars will bring the light cast by a stellar cluster into sharper focus, or even allow you ...

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

NGC 6910 is a bright open cluster in Cygnus the Swan, visible overnight as the Summer Triangle flies high around local ...

A University of Queensland study suggests that the Milky Way is on a collision course with neighboring galaxies, predicting a ...

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