Although the Milky Way will soon come out to play in the night sky, you'll need to follow a few steps in order to see its emergence. Find out how to watch our galaxy appear over the coming weeks ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

It's never a slow news day in the cosmos.

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!

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 6946 in Cygnus has seen 10 supernovae in the past century, earning it the nickname the Fireworks Galaxy ...

The galaxy will appear as a faint band of hazy light arching across the sky all night, wrote NASA, and the best part is, no special equipment is needed to see it, just a dark sky away from city ...

Light pollution is another factor to consider, as it can conceal the full picture of the sky. To see the Milky Way in all its glory, you’ll want to keep the Bortle scale in mind. This scale measures ...