With a nickname like Big Sky country, it's no surprise Montana is the ultimate destination for this year's celestial events, ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...