"Core season" for the Milky Way has arrived, with our galaxy visible all night as a band of light arching across the sky.

Towards the end of the month, Mercury will be visible in the western horizon, the space agency said. Californians can observe ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

This June, the Milky Way’s brilliant heart lights up the night as planets align and the solstice sun marks Earth’s celestial tipping point.

Around 16-17 June, Mars will appear to pass close to Regulus, the bright star at the heart of the constellation Leo, the lion ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

JWST's stunning image of NGC 346 shows that planets in the early universe didn’t form as quickly as theorists thought.