Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

What is the Milky Way? The Milky Way is our galaxy, a massive system made of stars, gas and dust. It is estimated to contain more than 100 billion stars and is about 100,000 light-years across.

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

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

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.