This image shows the regions of the Milky Way mapped by the VISTA Variables in ... to sustain nuclear fusion like stars, causing them to cool and fade relatively quickly.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

The Milky Way's supermassive black hole ... this vast vent of bright X-rays exists where hot and cool gas perpetually collide. It's unclear how often Sgr A* is spitting out gas to fill up this ...

This is why the stars are usually in the Milky Way halo, but their orbit also takes ... meaning it has taken billions of ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...