Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

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

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure — at least briefly ...

Stars with the right characteristics to become stellar engines have been shown to exist in our galaxy, he says. There are two main reasons why an advanced alien race might have to travel through ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

More than a dozen “hypervelocity” stars — which zip across the galaxy at more than 900,000 miles per hour, twice the speed of our sun — have been discovered so far. But all of them are ...