It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.

As stars move around the galactic center, they serve as a tool for mapping regions of the galaxy that are beyond the direct ...

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

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Stunning image of colliding galaxies is a preview of the Milky Way's fate 01:00. Scientists have discovered a dark side to our galaxy. In the first map of its kind of the Milky Way, they uncovered ...

From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in. For now, that map of the Milky Way is blurry and incomplete.

By Kat Troche As summer deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a familiar constellation rises with the galactic core of the ...

The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many planets. At 1.5 billion objects, the map represents only a small slice of the galaxy.

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years.

Gaia data has revealed a plethora of intriguing objects in our galaxy; in April 2024, scientists revealed the heaviest stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way, just 2,000 light-years from Earth ...