Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The best chance for seeing the Milky Way this month will come around Memorial Day weekend in Illinois, according to experts - ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

Why it's so special: What if a galaxy had only one spiral arm? Our solar system resides on the outskirts of one of the Milky ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

New simulation of magnetic turbulence helps scientists study star formation, space weather, and the forces shaping our galaxy ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy ... symbolizing the solar cycle. Nut is often covered in stars ...

W hen astronomers first spotted Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, it caused a little excitement. The group of stars at the edge of the Milky Way, not adding up to much more than 16 solar masses, appeared to be ...

the Milky Way, our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light years, will be visible, according to LiveScience.com. Here’s what to know about the unique solar occurrence ...