Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night ... of those vast spiral arms of stars and dust clouds.

If you are making travel plans to visit the national parks this summer, it may be difficult to decide where to go: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Smoky Mountains. But one thing you can count on is ...

Located about 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy home to active star formation. It is one of our Milky Way galaxy's closest neighbors alongside its ...

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

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... than the moon in the night sky. This form of explosion, known ...

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night ... and the stars will start ...