Although our local cosmic abyss, named Sgr A* (short for Sagittarius A*), resides just 26,000 light-years from Earth ... of ...

(Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images ... ark of light stretching from horizon to horizon—the spiral arms of our own Milky Way galaxy. Good luck with that. With light pollution getting ...

These shots of the Milky Way were taken ... spot Durdle Door In one image lights from the neighbouring villages appear to look like fire while high above the Milky Way To capture the scenes ...

The Milky Way -- no, not the candy bar -- is Earth's home galaxy ... in that region have very low light pollution. That's why so many good Milky Way photos are taken in the desert.

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image ...

let alone the Milky Way. The arc of our galaxy—visible right now straight after dark from places with no light pollution, such as Dark Sky Places—features prominently in the winning images ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... 27,000 light years from Earth.