Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

When to see it The Milky Way graces the sky in July 2010 over the Gerle Creek Reservoir in the El Droado National Forest in Sierra Nevada. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, ...

In about 4.5 billion years, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. While it sounds like a cosmic ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

What's in the middle of the Milky Way? In our neck of the cosmos, everything revolves around a supermassive black hole.

The massive core of our Milky Way galaxy serves as the backdrop to Full Moons, planetary conjunctions, and meteor showers throughout the summer season. Warm summer nights are great for staying up ...

"This doesn’t mean that as soon as the sun goes down you can see the Milky Way," writes Dan Zafra, co-founder of Capture the Atlas. "Even if it’s in the sky, the Milky Way will be barely ...

The Milky Way and its two largest satellite galaxies — the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds — lie above the horizon (at left) in this panorama taken from Tivoli, Namibia. Credit: Patrick Winkler ...

"We know the Milky Way has some 60 confirmed companion satellite galaxies ... "One day soon we may be able to see these ’missing’ galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about ...

A photographer from Mangalore shared his first experience of witnessing the Milky Way and capturing it with long-exposure ...

Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. For the past hundred years or so, scientists thought these galaxies existed in a ...