We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

If you are away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW horizon ... Little Dipper), Cepheus and Cassiopeia. In order of brightness in the March evening sky ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Scientists claim two of Earth's doomsday events from before the dinosaurs may have been triggered by a supernova exploding in the Milky Way. For decades scientists have dubbed several of our ...

On April evenings, look to the west to spot the bright winter constellations of Orion, Gemini, Taurus, Auriga, Canis Major and Canis Minor. They’ll be gone soon, so check them out while you can.

NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to search the Milky Way ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water ...

These dense, dusty cores are also the most likely origins of the material that would go on to form the first planets ... those in diffuse clouds in the Milky Way in the CC supernova core and ...

Space is *** very big place for real, and one of the biggest goals of humanity over the course of the last few decades is the concept of us sending things out into the Earth's orbit or into the very ...

NASA has taken the decision to shut off two more instruments on the iconic Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, in order to extend ... rays from the Sun and the Milky Way. The telescopes, which ...

"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together and worked diligently to get us over that." After more than a week of ...