Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

Deneb, Vega and Altair are among the brightest stars in the night sky.

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

Looking for an alternative to fireworks? Stargazers can catch a cosmic light show this Independence Day when the Milky Way appears in the night sky. The center of our home galaxy, which is composed of ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It turns out that a looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen, after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...