Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

The Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky Way’s colossal neighbor, lies 2.5 million light-years away yet shines visibly in dark skies.

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy's core this summer.

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and photograph - the Milky Way.

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind. These clouds sit high above the plane of the galaxy, deep inside enormous ...

Galactic winds are common in star-forming galaxies, such as M82, which is furiously making stars in its core. “It looks like there’s a link between the amount of star formation and whether or ...

Two international teams of astronomers discovered the nut-shaped nature of the Milky Way's core, which is known as the galactic bulge and packed with 10,000 million stars, using telescopes ...

A new radio image of our Milky Way captures it like never before. This space image is both beautiful and contains important scientific insights. The post Magnificent Image of Milky Way’s Core ...

Early on, so-called “core-collapse” supernovae were the norm because the giant stars that cause them were plentiful. ... “We’ll always know more about the Milky Way than any other galaxy.

The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research. Astronomers found the ancient stellar remnants when they mapped ...

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy's core this summer.