THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...

They found that there were more stars in the directions of the band of the Milky Way than above and below. Herschel concluded that the Milky Way was a disk-shaped structure. And because he found ...

Have you ever seen a big band of stars that stretches across the night sky? That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains ...

Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners announced including nebulae, skyscapes, and more.

Once in a while, get away from the city and witness the celestial splendour of the night sky. You might even get to wish upon ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Milky Way—The faint band of light stretching across the sky, due to myriad faint stars and nebulas; the name of the spiral galaxy containing our solar system. Molecular cloud—A large ...

Over this week and next week, start looking for the Milky Way around 9 or 10 p.m., West adds. The fuzzy band should remain visible until between 2 and 4 a.m. The best nights to look take place ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...