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

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.

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

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same material and are bound together through gravity.

Milky Way photos: Instagram-worthy images show our galaxy visible in the sky Perfect for Instagram: Billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, sometimes appear especially vibrant ...

Comprised of billions of stars, the Milky Way galaxy got its name because from our perspective on Earth, it appears as a faint band of light stretching across the entire sky.

The Milky Way core “is best observed from dark sky locations far from bright city lights, and appears as a faint, cloud-like band arching across the sky toward the south,” he informed viewers.

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...