For the rest of this summer, the New Moons are on Aug. 4 ... Also, areas where the sky is as cloud-free as possible are ideal ...

This summer, photographer Kirk Brandau has taken photos of the Milky Way from different areas in West Texas, including Balmorhea State Park, Davis Mountains State Park, and Big Bend National Park.

Matthew Dominick/NASA A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has shared a breathtaking time-lapse video featuring Earth, an aurora, the Milky Way, and the station itself.

In 1917, he said you could see the Milky Way from the Paris observatory during summer when the sun was sufficiently below the horizon, about the position of nautical twilight—the time of night ...

With any telescope, viewing M56 amidst a field populated with countless colorful stars of the summer Milky Way is a real treat. I have always felt sorry for poor M56 (NGC 6779) in Lyra because its ...

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought. Ancient stars ...

In this image, representing Earth’s night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull.

Andromeda is the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way – and it's getting closer. In fact, astronomers believe that the two galaxies are destined to crash into each other. But a new study ...

An illustration of the predicted merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger For decades, astronomers have predicted ...

For nearly two decades, astronomers have been asserting that someday, our galaxy will collide with the galaxy Andromeda, and the two will merge. Recently, a group of scientists has challenged the ...

Milky Chocolate-Coffee Trio ... and—don’t blame us, it's summer—a great ability to mix well into a large, very large, cocktail. Flavored Soda, Oh La La (credit: Tempo) Dumplings, Mama ...

In 1917, he said you could see the Milky Way from the Paris observatory during summer when the sun was sufficiently below the horizon, about the position of nautical twilight – the time of night ...