The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal galactic rule—it's just one of many possible evolutionary paths. By recreating ...

Just like the original Simply Caramel Milky Way bar did, the brand's new All Caramel brings its beloved caramel directly into ...

What would the Milky Way galaxy look like if you looked back at it from a distant part of the universe? And, what section of the galaxy can we see in the night sky from Earth? What would the Milky Way ...

Far from city lights, Hanle offers one of the clearest night skies in India, perfect for stargazing and spotting the Milky ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

A 14%-illuminated waxing crescent moon will hang low in the southwest tonight, soon after sunset, still in Capricorn, with ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We may finally know how much the Milky Way weighs. Estimates of our home galaxy's heft vary ...