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 ...

An invisible monster lurks beyond the stars of the constellation Sagittarius near the border with Scorpius: a supermassive black hole, designated as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star”), ...

The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

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 ...

The Milky Way is glowing in ways it should not, and the usual suspects like stars, dust and black holes cannot fully account ...

Looking for an alternative to fireworks? Stargazers can catch a cosmic light show this Independence Day when the Milky Way appears in the night sky. The center of our home galaxy, which is composed of ...

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

The Milky Way's satellite galaxies are less typical than previously thought. Most Milky Way-like galaxies have star-forming satellite galaxies, unlike our own. The Milky Way's unique satellite galaxy ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named Alaknanda, the spiral system — visible thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope and ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...