July’s rare meteor shower combo of Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids lights the sky with Milky Way ...

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky ...

NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but beyond ...

Two meteor showers and the return of the Milky Way make up the top astronomy events for July. Mark these events down on your ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

Astronomers thought the Milky Way was doomed to crash into Andromeda. ... No certainty of a Milky Way–Andromeda collision, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1.

Until the 1920s, it was common to refer to the Milky Way as “the galaxy,” i.e. the one and only. The Milky Way was so vast that it was thought to contain the entire physical Universe.

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...