The Milky Way contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, but the exact number is difficult to determine due to the galaxy's vast size and the presence of dust that obscures our view.

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow Shapley, who had argued that the Milky ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

The “Red Monsters” are nearly as large as the Milky Way and create stars at a rate faster than most discovered galaxies. NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao & P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G. Brammer ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

“Most of the Milky Way satellites have very ancient star populations. They stopped forming stars about 10 billion years ago,” said Marco Arias, the lead author of the study, in the same release.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation.. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. ... (M33) — the latter half the size of our Milky Way and the third-largest galaxy in our local group of galaxies, ...

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 contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, but the exact number is difficult to determine due to the ...