Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...

A colossal wave is rolling through the Milky Way’s stars, mapped by ESA’s Gaia telescope and reshaping our understanding of ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...