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 June, which means solstice time – and therefore, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest night of the year. That’s a shame, as something else remarkable is set to occur this ...

New details on a mysterious Milky Way region called ‘The Brick’ reveal it’s even stranger than scientists thought By Jackie Wattles , CNN 5 minute read ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Regardless of the Milky Way’s ultimate celestial fate, discovering and studying unique neighboring galaxies like J23453268−0449256 allows astronomers to learn more about our surprising ...

There are approximately 500,000 stars in this image of the Sagittarius C region of the Milky Way. The bright cyan area contains emissions from ionized hydrogen. NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI ...

A river of hydrogen gas flows outward from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies located in the outskirts of the Milky Way. The contents of this river, called the Magellanic ...

In the 1920s astronomers Edwin Hubble and Vesto Slipher were able to show that some of the spiral and elliptical nebulae were terribly distant and not inside the Milky Way at all.

New research from a professor at the Kansas State University that used imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope gives credence to a scientific theory that says the Milky Way is inside of a ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

WASHINGTON - The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a ...