Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Citizen scientists from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have identified an object traveling at an incredible 1 million miles per hour, fast enough to escape the Milky Way’s gravity. This ...

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image is the sum of 86 observations added together, representing over three million seconds of Chandra observing time. It ...

Milky Way season is here, bringing clearer views of our galaxy. Here's how to see it from Nevada.

Astronomers wonder why there aren't more stars.

NASA says a group of scientists may have discovered signs of a new planet beyond the Milky Way. The potential discovery could be the first-ever planet found in another galaxy. The potential planet, ...

It was only earlier this month that American space agency NASA announced it had completed construction work on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and now we're already getting word of another ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed in unprecedented detail the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. NASA moves its Artemis II moon rocket off the launch pad for ...

NASA reshapes its Artemis moon program by introducing a docking test, involving SpaceX and Blue Origin, amidst growing competition from China. Concurrently, astronomers map a massive cold gas web in ...

Benita Albert brings us part two of the two-part series on the career of Bob Benjamin. His career interest in astronomy began soon after graduating from Oak Ridge High School. You will find it ...