Messier 83 was discovered in 1752, but it wasn't realized that it's actually a galaxy outside the Milky Way until Edwin ...

Canadian photographer Scott Aspinall and his team took on a challenging journey to photograph the Milky Way over a remote waterfall in Saskatchewan, Canada. It was a gruelling five-day trip by car, ...

The results of the eighth round of our prestigious Amateur Photographer of the Year competition are in! The post ...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

"I'd planned to go out and photograph the sky as I was in the best place to do so." An image of the Milky Way captured from the Arkaroola International Dark Sky Sanctuary in South Australia.

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been at the same stage of ...

A new photograph shared by NASA offers a peek at the breathtaking views seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The ...

Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

In this one-minute clip posted to X from the International Space Station (ISS) social media account, SpaceX's Crew Dragon ...

The key to successful starry night photography is finding a location with as little light pollution as possible. Dark sky ...

The young galaxy is only 6,500 light years from its first companion and 42,000 light years from its second. In comparison, the fully formed Milky Way is 100,000 light years across and could easily fit ...

The answer is: a radio telescope that can track hydrogen in the Milky Way as well as the velocities of hydrogen clouds via their Doppler shifts, according to a paper by [Jack Phelps] titled ...