Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

Sky watchers around the world have a new star to hunt for in the night sky, thanks to a recently detected explosion in our ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space ...

Incredibly brilliant images have been released this week of the Milky Way and other distant galaxies from the world's largest telescope at the Rubin Observatory in Chile. Derrick Pitts, chief ...

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors.

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

The Bogong moth migrates 1,000 km, using stars in the Milky Way for navigation, a first for insects. They sense Earth's ...

For the last hundred years, pollution from artificial light has seeped into the night sky and wildlife are suffering. While ...

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under ...

Longtime imager and Astronomy magazine contributor Giovanni Tumino just sent me his latest image, and I’m gagging. He was ...