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

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

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal galactic rule—it's just one of many possible evolutionary paths. By recreating ...

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

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

Fireworks aren't the only thing illuminating the sky this month. July also presents the opportunity to catch a cosmic light show, when the Milky Way galaxy appears in the night sky. According to NASA, ...

The best chance for seeing the Milky Way this month will come around Memorial Day weekend in Illinois, according to experts -- and there are a few locations you might want to try viewing from. Milky ...

An MIT astronomy class has found three of the oldest stars in the universe lurking right outside the Milky Way. The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the cloud of ...