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

Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, got its name because from our perspective on Earth, a faint band of light stretches across the sky ...

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

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

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

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

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel' Tiny galaxies may have helped our universe out of its dark ages, JWST finds ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy, a vast spiral structure with a disk of stars stretching over 100,000 light-years across. Earth resides along one of its spiral arms, roughly halfway between the ...

Astronomers have long thought the Milky Way was destined to merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The aftermath of this predicted clash has been dubbed “Milkomeda,” and researchers predicted ...