The Milky Way is not the calm, flat starry disk many of us learned about in school. Astronomers are now tracking a colossal, ...

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 reason has ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

What you're looking at when the Milky Way is visible is the bright center of our galaxy with billions of stars. Because visibility from Earth depends on the latitude, the further south you go, the ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...