Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive galaxy 153 times larger than the Milky Way. This cosmic giant challenges our ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light years.

You can find the galaxy easily by looking for the Summer Triangle, “a shape formed by three bright stars,” that sits across the Milky Way, according to the site. “If it’s above the horizon ...

New simulation of magnetic turbulence helps scientists study star formation, space weather, and the forces shaping our galaxy ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...

It was so blatantly flawless, that scientists deemed it worthy of being called Teleios (they considered calling it Cue Ball, ...