Now dominating the late-summer sky are three very bright stars high overhead. Look carefully and you’ll spot many sky delights within — including the Milky Way itself.

The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the ...

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The American Museum of Natural History’s new Hayden Planetarium space show, Encounters in the Milky Way, depicts cosmic ...

An explanation of why some argue it's better to photograph the Milky Way in summer and how to do it, including the best camera settings ...

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the San Diego Padres care more about the rivalry.

Sauk Rapids, Sauk Centre have finalists compete for Princess Kay of the Milky Way Two 19-year-olds representing Stearns & Benton counties are among 10 finalists when the new royalty representing ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our Milky Way galaxy. The Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) is about 60 parsecs ...

Finding dark dwarfs would go a long way to answering the question about the nature of dark matter. If we could detect some dark dwarfs, it would bolster the idea that dark matter is WIMPs.

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the Big Bang.