The Milky Way galaxy is like a gigantic ocean gyre or eddy that spins and wobbles around its center. But our home galaxy also has a colossal wave rippling through it, pulling and pushing an ocean of ...

Salmon Creek Beach provides a visual feast for a visitor, with glowing plankton under a sky filled with an image of the Milky Way.

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

“Milky seas” are an ocean phenomenon that cause a vast area of the ocean to glow. Scientists are trying to predict when the events occur in hopes of better understanding the bioluminescent display. - ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. These galaxies are more than just neighbors: They're gravitationally bound. And for the ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

(CNN) — For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see. “The sea from horizon to horizon in all directions took on a ...