Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

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 ...

For centuries, humanity believed that Earth was the center of the universe, a view championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy. But with Galileo's groundbreaking observations in the 1600s, the idea of a ...

While 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 comprising our galaxy. When it’s ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years If you've never gotten a good luck at the Milky Way galaxy , you'll have that opportunity on Fourth ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk galaxies from up to 11 billion years ago. Just like artifacts excavated ...

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).