The Milky Way is not just a band of stars stretching across the night sky; it's a massive, dynamic galaxy spanning over 200,000 light-years and containing hundreds of billions of stars, planets, and ...

“Sometime around mid- to late September, if you get up before the sun rises and look to the east part of the sky, you’ll see ...

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Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

While tourists flock to better-known North Carolina beaches, savvy locals have long treasured Freeman Park as their personal paradise – a place where nature still calls the shots and commercial ...

"Once you do, it's just spectacular," said Aileen O'Donoghue, astronomer with St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky ...

Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of ...

A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi ...