When viewed edge-on, such as from our solar system’s position within the galaxy, the disk of the Milky Way does indeed appear as a straight line across the sky. The arc you reference in many ...

The Long Road to a Galactic Collision The Large Magellanic Cloud is currently in orbit around the Milky Way, located about ...

But if you zoom much, much farther out, our solar system is just a pinprick on the outskirts of the Milky Way, a 100,000-light-year-wide galaxy with a 4.6-billion-solar-mass behemoth at its core.

A new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope of the deep center of the Milky Way highlights never-before-features that have yet to be scientifically explained. Specifically, JWST narrowed in on ...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with ...

Astronomers believe the Milky Way is an estimated 13.51 billion years old. Yet many details of its life remain unclear, such as what happened during its infancy and what the galaxy was like as a ...

By tracking the motions of billions of stars in our galaxy, the Gaia space telescope has been unraveling the history of the Milky Way — and the spacecraft's latest findings disentangle that ...