Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

A green energy plant expected to ... stars near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, among other ...

Here’s what you need to know. The Milky Way is out there every night. But you need a really, truly dark sky like what they have at Natural Bridges National Monument in southern Utah. You ...

Have you ever seen a big band of stars that stretches across the night sky? That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

In fact, roughly a century ago, the skies above some of even the biggest cities in the world were still dark enough to see the gaseous clouds of the Milky Way and the infinite specks of flickering ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

With a population of more than 76,000, Flagstaff faces no small feat in trying to protect its dark sky. Visitors can marvel at the Milky Way and myriad constellations from the newly opened Marley ...

In the ongoing quest to understand dark matter, researchers are now wondering if a strange phenomenon occurring at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy could be from a different form of dark matter. Dark ...

NEAR MARATHON Fla. (WSVN) — Star gazers in the Florida Keys were treated to some Milky Way magic on Monday. The timelapse video shows a blue streak rolling across the sky from Bahia Honda State ...

A green energy plant expected to be built in Chile's Atacama Desert could increase night-time sky brightness at one ... black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, among other accomplishments.