The peak period to view the Milky Way will be from Tuesday, May 20, to Friday, May 30. "The galaxy's bright core becomes ...

Astronomers have identified a vast population of potential protoplanetary disks within the turbulent central molecular zone ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A Class 9 sky, clogged by light pollution, will only display the moon and a smattering of the brightest planets and stars. A Class 1 sky, on the other hand, will show everything the sky has to offer, ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

and only the brightest stars and planets are brilliant enough to see in bright, urban skies,” the federal space agency said. The Milky Way lights up the sky in August 2016 near wind mills north ...

the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way where high pressures and extreme densities make the finding a challenge to conventional theories of planet formation. The study, led by ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

If you want to see the Milky Way, you’ll need to be as far away from light pollution as possible, LiveScience.com says. You can use a light pollution map to help find darker spots that are better for ...

Stargazing North Carolinians are in luck this month – one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena will be visible soon. During May 2025, the Milky Way, our home galaxy with a disk of stars ...