With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May, especially as the new moon makes the skies dark.

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Here’s how it works. The Milky Way had a previously unknown big sibling that was torn apart by the neighboring Andromeda galaxy long ago, a new study suggests. Andromeda and the Milky Way are ...

Astronomers have now found thousands of planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way, and 100 billion more stars in the galaxy presumably ... when a Mars-size object struck the nascent Earth ...

The Milky Way Galaxy's magnetic turbulence stands revealed in an innovative new computer model describing the expanse between ...

Most of the galaxies that scientists have discovered so far are spiral galaxies, as opposed to the other two main categories of galaxy shapes — elliptical and irregular. The Milky Way – the ...

It includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn ... and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other stars besides our sun.

A resident of the constellation Leo, the newly discovered galaxy called Leo T is only about 600 light-years across—about one-sixteenth the diameter of the Milky Way—and 50,000 times brighter ...