ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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Time-lapse video of the Milky Way risign up from behind a hill with a larch forest. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Many of the atoms in the Milky Way, including the carbon in your body, have taken a round-trip journey through intergalactic space, new research suggests. (Image credit: VICTOR de SCHWANBERG ...

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas visible ...