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

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

What is the Milky Way? The Milky Way is our galaxy, a massive system made of stars, gas and dust. It is estimated to contain more than 100 billion stars and is about 100,000 light-years across.

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...