There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood! Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

"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 ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

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 ...

The Milky Way contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, but the exact number is difficult to determine due to the ...

Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. A team of astronomers from England used that farthest point to determine that the diameter of the ...

“Most of the Milky Way satellites have very ancient star populations. They stopped forming stars about 10 billion years ago,” said Marco Arias, the lead author of the study, in the same release.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation.. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal.. It has grown by consuming other galaxies.Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda.Though galaxy collisions are ...