A new map of the Milky Way’s atomic hydrogen, anchored by precise distances to young Cepheid stars, reveals the galaxy’s gas disk is highly clumped and flocculent rather than smooth.

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course that will take out our galaxy and the solar system with it.

Astronomers reveal a new map of the Milky Way, showing a clumpy gas structure in its outer disk. The discovery reshapes how we understand our galaxy’s shape and evolution. The post New Map of ...

That makes this newly released map bigger than the largest Milky Way galaxy map ever created, which still only covers a small slice of the galaxy's overall layout. However, the Milky Way galaxy ...

Scientists will be able to turn the roughly 60 million billion bytes of image data from the Vera Rubin Observatory into ...

At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, experts were hard at work preparing "Encounters in the Milky Way," a deep dive into our home galaxy shaped by the movements of stars and other ...

A brand-new, cutting-edge telescope called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to release its first images to the world, ...

Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer ...

The new observatory will allow astronomers to step through space and time like never before — these videos give us a taste of how.