The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

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

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations ...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth. NGC 2264 is a vast region of space where new stars are actively ...

Astronomers have presented a unique cosmic structure resembling a Christmas tree, formed by new stars in the NGC 2264 region, ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

The Nancy Grace Roman (the famous NASA astronomer, not to be mistaken for the crime show host), which is slated for launch by ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.