In short, you may want to plan a road trip out to the middle of nowhere in order to see it properly. The exact dates differ from region to region, but the Milky Way should be visible across the ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

"Within 2 billion years, Andromeda will have traveled the distance that separates it from the Milky Way and, just at their meeting point, they will cross each other," the expert explained ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

The total mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be only two hundred billion times that of the sun (2.06 x 10 11 solar masses), marking a significant downward revision—approximately four to five ...