The sight of the Milky Way stretching across the night sky is iconic, but some places offer a better view of it than others. These locations are among the best.

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the universe in unprecedented detail, from violent cosmic collisions to faraway ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under different rules.

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.

Milky Way galaxy might not collide with Andromeda after all Astronomers ran 100,000 computer simulations using combined Hubble/Gaia space telescope data.

What does Milky Way galaxy look like when it’s visible from Earth? When is Milky Way season? Perfect for Instagram: Billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, sometimes appear ...

A Milky Way Twin in the Early Universe Among these new findings is Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy candidate identified to date, seen at a redshift of 5.2 -- just 1 billion years after ...