Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

A surprising new look at the Milky Way has scientists rethinking everything we thought we knew about our home galaxy. Thanks ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

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

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

Dubai Astronomy Group will host a Milky Way observation event on Saturday June 21 in Al Quaa Desert, Abu Dhabi. Stargazers ...