What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Looking for an alternative to fireworks? Stargazers can catch a cosmic light show this Independence Day when the Milky Way appears in the night sky. The center of our home galaxy, which is composed of ...

The Milky Way's satellite galaxies are less typical than previously thought. Most Milky Way-like galaxies have star-forming satellite galaxies, unlike our own. The Milky Way's unique satellite galaxy ...

Greetings everyone! We’ve lost three of the five visible planets to the sun’s glare with only Jupiter remaining in the ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers have identified a compact, superheated galaxy in the early universe that is churning out new suns at roughly 180 ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.