Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It's part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs. In ...

‘Core season,’ as the pros at NASA have dubbed it, is officially upon us. While the ‘core’ of the Milky Way galaxy is visible in the night sky across the Northern Hemisphere almost all summer long, ...

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

In the dense, glittering heart of our galaxy, a cosmic drama is playing out that puts our own quiet solar system to shame.

This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the ...

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

The best chance for seeing the Milky Way this month will come around Memorial Day weekend in Illinois, according to experts -- and there are a few locations you might want to try viewing from. Milky ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius the Archer, one of the zodiac constellations. Not only is Sagittarius easy ...

Sadly, summer comes to an end this month. But the great news for stargazing this September is that there’s so much happening in the heavens and along with that, there’s still plenty of great summer ...

Sagittarius represent a centaur — half man and half horse. The constellation is very ancient, tracing its origin to Sumerian times, when it represented a god of war and hunting called PA.BIL.SAG. But ...