Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Comet 3I/ATLAS passed its nearest point to Earth early Friday and approaching within 168 million miles.

But the most striking discovery was just how chaotic the Milky Way’s early life appears to have been. The youngest galactic ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. These galaxies are more than just neighbors: They're gravitationally bound. And for the ...

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and where to look. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week Unprecedented view of the Milky Way took 40,000 ...