Death Valley National Park offers some of the best stargazing in America, with DarkSky International having designated it as a Gold Tier Dark Sky Park.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy - seen 600 million years after the Big Bang - that is ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give ... months of observations while slightly changing fields of view to create a mosaic of a larger field of view that cancels ...

Stargazing is one of the oldest human traditions, with stories and constellations dating back thousands of years.

youthful stars that have been observed zipping around the Milky Way's center at hypervelocities, the new study suggests. Moreover, because young stars are often accompanied by planets, this ...

Brian Welch is in the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA, and at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.

A wide-field view of galaxies and stars that have been gravitationally lensed "Most of the ... like the jumbled-up stars spread across the arms of the Milky Way. "This galaxy has a diverse population ...

The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image ...