The European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has produced the most accurate map of the Milky Way, with the position and motion of almost 2 billion stars being used to better understand our ...

With a new moon coming on Monday, conditions should already be ideal for viewing in a dark area. Here’s a guide to making the most of a summer Milky Way-spotting session. A visualization of our ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

A famous example is the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' map, created in 1570, which features sea serpents and other sea monsters. Fast forward to today , and an unexplored Milky Way star cluster ...

A new study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy and its neighboring Andromeda galaxy are already interacting, long before ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

Webb's imagery has enabled scientists to better study star formation in the outer Milky Way. A team of NASA astronomers recently pointed the spacefaring telescope toward the outskirts of our own ...

What he saw gave him chills. In a hypothetical view from Earth, the warped Milky Way and Andromeda (on right) after their initial collision. Credit: NASA The Milky Way and Andromeda collision Such ...

The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us at a staggering ... it will grow larger in the heavens until it engulfs our entire view—at which point it will ...

For nearly two decades, astronomers have been asserting that someday, our galaxy will collide with the galaxy Andromeda, and the two will merge. Recently, a group of scientists has challenged the ...

Using data collected using the Gaia satellite, an international team of researchers has uncovered what could be fresh details of a hypothetical dust-up between the Milky Way and an orbiting body of ...