For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

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 ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

The Milky Way is really something to see — but not this month, when it’s at the level of the horizon before midnight. (The Columbian files) Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may ...

Look up at the night sky and you might feel dwarfed by the glimmer of countless stars. Now shift that view downward, press your mind to the ground and the green world under your feet—and you’ll find ...

The true scale of the Milky Way Galaxy — and, indeed, the universe as a whole — became dramatically clearer in the 1920s. That’s when a new generation of large telescopes coupled with photography ...