The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Nestled in the remote highlands of Potter County, Cherry Springs State Park offers something increasingly rare in our modern world – a chance to see the night sky as our ancestors did, ablaze with ...

Cherry Springs, isolated atop its mountain and surrounded by the 265,000-acre Susquehannock State Forest, remained a haven of darkness. In 2000, the park was designated as Pennsylvania’s first Dark ...

Dark matter continues to confound us, so far defying every attempt to decipher it. According to a new study, clues may lurk ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it’s called ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

Astronomy lovers in America will be treated to a great show in this month. In the early morning of March 14, a total lunar ...

Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding designated the Matthews family homestead, Milky Way Farm, as a prestigious ...

Radio astronomers have discovered an unusual phenomenon in recent years. They detected radio pulses from the Milky Way that last from seconds to minutes. These pulses differ from those produced by ...