Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

It's only the third time that experts have spotted an object in the Milky Way that's come from a different solar system. Find ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Milky Way is gigantic. The Milky Way galaxy is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers (about 621,371,000,000,000,000 ...

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

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.

The Milky Way will be more visible in the night-time sky across Michigan in the coming days, experts from NASA say, as we experience a new moon this month. The billions of stars comprising our ...

A stronomer Bob Benjamin has spent the past 20 years trying to figure out what the Milky Way looks like.The work isn't easy, because we're inside the galaxy and can't see it from the outside, but ...

The Milky Way's orbit isn't perfectly radial because there's a bit of sideways motion between the two galaxies, Mihos told Live Science. The Milky Way (seen here) will collide with the Andromeda ...