It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

The galaxy group pictured here is the most massive group in what’s called the COSMOS-Web field. The objects in frame span an incredible range of distances, from stars within our own Milky Way ...

"Our new maps nicely demonstrate that the spiral structure in the gas disk of the Milky Way is highly flocculent, and that the overall structure of the disk is complex," Dr. Craig adds.

May 30 (UPI) -- A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course that will take out our galaxy and the ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...

Once the growing galaxy is large enough, it will start to gravitationally arrange itself into the spiral structures we see around us in the local Universe, including our own Milky Way.

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, will be visible in North Carolina in May. Here’s when to look up, how to spot it without any hassle and the weather forecast.

During May 2025, the Milky Way, our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light years, will be visible, according to LiveScience.com.

The galaxy spans more than 60,000 light-years across and contains over 100 billion solar masses in stars, making it one of the most compelling analogues of the Milky Way ever found from such an ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...