“If it turns out the Milky Way is unique because of some merger event 8 billion years ago, then that whole picture of using our Milky Way as a template for all other galaxies just falls apart ...

The Milky Way is our galaxy, a massive system made of stars, gas and dust. It is estimated to contain more than 100 billion stars and is about 100,000 light-years across.

It implies the Milky Way can act as a blueprint or template for galaxy formation. This means our home galaxy (which is obviously the easiest for us to study) could hold the key to unlocking the ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is home to a multitude of intriguing features – including nearly a thousand mysterious magnetic strands, according to a new telescope image.

Peak days to view the Milky Way started on May 20 and go through May 30, according to science news website LiveScience. The best viewing time is between about midnight and 5 a.m., according to ...

However, the Milky Way is on a collision course with its nearest major neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, according to NASA. In about 4 billion years the two galaxies will begin colliding, ...

Five views of the galactic plane. The top two are the Milky Way in visible and gamma ray light; third is the emission template for the expected neutrino flux; emission template from panel 3 ...

When the Milky Way and Gaia-Enceladus collided, perhaps 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way’s delicate disk may have suffered widespread damage. Astronomers debate why our galactic disk seems to have ...

The best time to see the Milky Way is up to a week before and within days after a new moon to avoid excess light in the night sky. Through the remainder of this summer into early fall, a new moon ...

The Milky Way is warped and scientists may finally know why. New research lays the blame for our 'wobbly disked' galaxy on an invisible halo of dark matter. Skip to main content.

The probability of the Milky Way colliding with the Andromeda galaxy within the next 10 billion years is now estimated at 50%, lower and farther in the future than previous predictions.

At least one thousand, and that's just in 4,000+ exoplanets found by the Kepler Space Telescope, which gathered data from a few areas of the Milky Way between 2009 and 2018.