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 ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell ... He and his friends went on a road trip there "for the sky and just for pleasure," McDonnell said. "I'd planned to go out and ...

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 ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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.

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

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 ...