Milky Way

The largest amount of astronomical chemical data ever collected on the Milky Way will soon provide answers about the history of the universe says an Australian-led project at the Australian ...

A thirsty lion drinks from a river under the stunning Milky Way in an incredible photograph. Villiers Steyn, ...

Our Milky Way galaxy has a bit of a look-alike in an unlikely place: the early universe. Astronomers ...

Aliens or non-human civilized life within our own Milky Way could have already visited Earth but we just aren't ...

A team of researchers has for the first time captured what it looks like when two galaxies are ...

Planets and stars form solar systems, which in turn form galaxies like our own Milky Way, but there ...

The universe as we know it—stretching about 93 billion light years across—has been squeezed into a 55-acre lot ...

A new image taken by the APEX telescope in Chile provides one of the sharpest pictures of the ...

A new map of the Milky Way was released by scientists, showing high-resolution detail of the galaxy. The ...

A plethora of missing matter problems besieges astronomy.

The European Space Agency launched a rocket Thursday carrying two cubes of gold and platinum almost a million ...

A new star map includes the most comprehensive images anyone has ever seen of the Milky Way’s cold ...

The search for extraterrestrial life is surely one of the most important tasks we humans can undertake.

Large disk galaxies, much like our own Milky Way, may have existed in the early days of the ...

In the Milky Way galaxy, you have two kinds of stars: those that stay put and stars that ...

"Here be dragons" was a phrase once used on ancient maps, often accompanied by mythical sketches, to highlight ...

When we think of cosmology, we often imagine the largest telescopes peering into the deepest space, collecting the ...

Researchers looking for habitable planets in the galaxy are using a model that estimates more planets could support ...

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way appears to be radiating gamma rays—a sign that dark ...

At a time when our earliest human ancestors mastered walking upright the heart of our Milky Way galaxy ...

With the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA astronomers spotted a cluster of faint ghostlike stars orphaned ...

While invisible, dark matter completely dominates our Milky Way. But recent measurements of just how much dark matter ...

Astronomers have detected very fast bursts of radio waves coming from deep in outer space and they don’t ...

A galaxy more than 12 billion light years from Earth is heading for a "red and dead" future ...

A new map of the entire sky offers a remarkably detailed picture of the magnetic fields that shape ...

Grand Canyon, Milky Way time-lapse video: It’s as though you’re watching a thousand years pass.

A new NASA video shows the most compelling hint of dark matter ever recorded. Using raw data from ...