The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core of our very own Milky Way galaxy. Right now is a peak time for United States-based ...

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 ... is so cool to see ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

Scientists have discovered two colossal beams of energy emerging from a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

A cosmic train wreck may be looming in our future. The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us at a staggering 110 kilometers per second. You can already see it ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are ...

If you start to get tired of leftover Halloween candy, that doesn't mean it's time to throw it out. Instead, repurpose it ...

Webb's imagery has enabled scientists to better study star formation in the outer Milky Way. A team of NASA astronomers recently pointed the spacefaring telescope toward the outskirts of our own ...