With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

Jack Wojczynski The Andromeda galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way galaxy. “Close” may be deceiving, though, because Andromeda is over 2 million light years away!

First, let’s start with the good news. As with August stargazing any year, there’s still plenty of summer and great summer ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Stargazers have a few upcoming opportunities to see our home galaxy spread across the night sky. Earth is one of hundreds of billions planets in the Milky Way, and the galaxy ...

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

The sky in Modesto and Sacramento is expected to be cloudless on Tuesday night, when the best galaxy viewing conditions begin, according to to the National Weather Service’s seven-day forecast.

Galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in our universe, consisting of hundreds or thousands of galaxies that have ...

Bode's galaxy, which sits about 11.5 million light-years away, can even be seen as a fuzzy blob through binoculars, according to BBC Sky at Night. With a telescope, you might even be able to see ...

So when you look up at the sky, you are enjoying the view of real, likely alive stars nearby, an occasional planet, our own galaxy, and a few galaxies that are close enough to see without the aid ...

The sky in Modesto and Sacramento is expected to be cloudless on Tuesday night, when the best galaxy viewing conditions begin, according to to the National Weather Service’s seven-day forecast.