The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

Big news for space enthusiasts: The James Webb Space Telescope, renowned for its remarkable ability to peer deep into the universe, has recently turned its gaze toward a particularly distant and ...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Comet Lemmon was discovered in January 2025 and made its closest approach to Earth in late October 2025. But by November 2025, when this image was taken, it had brightened to about the same apparent ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the Milky Way's ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

Astronomers believe the two galaxies may collide in next 10 billion years Theory based on data from Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia star-tracking mission 'In short, the probability went from ...

The Magellanic Stream is an arc of hydrogen gas spanning more than 100 degrees of the sky as it trails behind the Milky Way’s neighbor galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Our home galaxy, ...

The mass of the Milky Way is one of the most fundamental measurements astronomers can make about our galactic home. However, despite decades of intense effort, even the best available estimates of the ...

What can the gamma ray light emitted by the Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about the existence of dark matter? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a ...