With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May, especially as the new moon makes the skies dark.

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...

The peak period to view the Milky Way will be from Tuesday, May 20, to Friday, May 30. "The galaxy's bright core becomes ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

Illinois residents will soon get the chance to see the bright band of the Milky Way Galaxy, which isn’t usually very visible ...

Because of light pollution, 80% of U.S. residents typically can’t see the Milky Way, according to LiveScience.com, a science news publication. The galaxy’s bright core will be easier to see and higher ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months after it got off the ground ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever seen.

The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 ...