Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

The moment you glimpse the Milky Way stretched across the night sky, you realize how many stars city life has stolen from you ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of ...

There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.

James Webb Telescope Unveils Largest-Ever Map Of The Universe, Reveals 800,000 Galaxies ... That makes this newly released map bigger than the largest Milky Way galaxy map ever created. Show.

A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, in collaboration with Dr. Peter Craig, has introduced a more precise map of the outer gas disk of the Milky Way. This study, published in The ...

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.

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way's "inevitable" collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought. New study finds that the Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of ...