Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

"We made so many discoveries ... Despite the huge amount of data, though, the map doesn't cover the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to ...

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have released the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ... galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. “We made ...

Astronomers reveal a new map of the Milky Way, showing a clumpy gas structure in its outer disk. The discovery reshapes how ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... “The completion of the largest infrared map of the Milky Way is a remarkable achievement for the astronomy ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

WASHINGTON - The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

“We made so many discoveries, we have changed the view of our Galaxy forever,” said ... of the data is a more accurate map of the inner region of the Milky Way, which is often obscured by ...