An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

Bright stars visible during May mornings include Arcturus in the west; Vega nearly overhead; with nearby Altair and Deneb completing the Summer Triangle; Antares in the southwest; and Fomalhaut rising ...

The planetarium, located at 100 Center Ave., is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

SETI’s senior astronomer explains how colossal artifacts could be the key to finding extraterrestrial life, past or present.

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness ...

An enormous glowing cloud that contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas has been discovered near the solar ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...