This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way's most massive globular clusters ...

Scientists have taken a fresh look at the Milky Way's mysterious gamma-ray glow using machine learning and uncovered evidence ...

Researchers have discovered that our galaxy's outermost spiral arms are wide open and farther away than we thought ...

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a team of researchers made ...

Astronomers have spent decades mapping the Milky Way, but the galaxy is too vast for anyone to see its full shape from the inside. Distances to its outer spiral arms have therefore relied heavily on ...

The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

Fireworks may not be the only light show this July Fourth weekend. Here's how you can see the Milky Way this month across the ...

This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be ...

The European Space Agency released the largest and most detailed image ever captured of the center of the Milky Way. One state just broke a major tornado record—why it’s bad news for millions What is ...

At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive stars form there surprisingly slowly. Using NASA's retired SOFIA observatory, ...

Astronomers may have uncovered new details about one of the Milky Way's most important ancient collisions. Using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and a new clustering ...