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

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

If you look up in the sky at night at Cassiopeia, you'll notice a faintly glowing object located just off Schedar, the constellation's brightest star. That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

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 ...

New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...

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

Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi ...

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 ...