Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away in ...

In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

Amid the frigid North Pacific, humpback whales collaborate to create spiral bubble nets that ensnare prey, displaying both sophisticated intelligence and intricate social structures.

But the most striking discovery was just how chaotic the Milky Way’s early life appears to have been. The youngest galactic ...

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who recently completed her Ph.D. at York University under the supervision of Prof. Adam ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

Caramel lovers, get excited. Milky Way is ditching the nougat in favor of a bar full of the gooey caramel that fans have loved for years. The new bar, Milky Way All Caramel, is set to be on shelves ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...