Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is the latest in a series of stunning cosmic phenomena that should be visible in August ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...

It’s nice to think the Milky Way “still has a long, planet-forming future ahead of it.” Galaxy merger mayhem Astronomers witness galaxy mergers happening throughout all of space and time.

The center of the Milky Way, which Dyches refers to as "the core," became visible in June and is expected to shine every ...

They found that the effects of the neighboring Triangulum galaxy increased the likelihood of a merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda, while the Large Magellanic Cloud decreased those chances.

This article details our understanding of star and planet formation within galaxies, recognising the dynamic nature of ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Researchers discovered at least seventy free-floating planets in a region of the Milky Way known as the Upper Scorpius OB stellar association.

Our planet sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA. The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that includes more ...