Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).

The view of the Milky Way lit up the night sky at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

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

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

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Stunning images of the Milky Way have been captured over the Cornish coast by an amateur photographer. Lee Nuttall, 52, was on holiday in West Cornwall from his home in the Midlands, when he managed ...

Published on June 23 first images of the new Vera Rubin Observatory, showing more than 10 million galaxies around the Virgo ...

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

Two meteor showers will peak at the same time in July with the cosmic glow of our galaxy serving as the backdrop. Here's how to see the month's top astronomical sights.

Image credits: capturetheatlas #2 “Galaxy Of The Stone Array” By Alvin Wu. Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand. The Milky Way hangs over the sea. The night sky of the Southern Hemisphere condenses ...