“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. - ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

Here in the Lowcountry, the Milky Way often rises out over the Atlantic Ocean… meaning, beautiful views from our beaches at night! But did you know you don’t need a high-end camera to capture the ...

When earth and sky meet the result is electric as this photo taken at Salmon Creek Beach shows. Bioluminescent plankton, which emit light through a chemical reaction, cast a blue glow underneath a ...

Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

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 ...

FLORIDA KEYS, Fla. - The Milky Way appeared to move through the sky early on Monday morning. A photographer, Daniel Eidsmoe, in the Florida Keys captured the time-lapse footage. According to Eidsmoe, ...

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 ...

(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 ...