The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

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Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

The SAGA Survey just published three new research articles that provide us with new insights into the uniqueness of our own Milky Way Galaxy after completing the census of 101 satellite systems ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study complicates the story. Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of ...