The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on Aug. 23.

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

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

When is the best time to see the Milky Way in Texas? Here's a list of the best times and places to see our galaxy.

A new supercomputer simulation reveals why spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are strikingly scarce in our pocket of the universe.

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

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

Previous infrared observations found hints of a two-armed Milky Way, but those results were unclear because the position and width of the arms were unknown.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, that has been observed to date.

“Most models of the Milky Way suggest that the Sagittarius Arm forms a spiral that has a pitch angle of about 12 degrees, but the structure we examined really stands out at an angle of nearly 60 ...

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