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

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

Milky Way All Caramel “brings the brand's gooey caramel into the spotlight,” per an announcement shared with PEOPLE ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal 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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy that looks strikingly like a young Milky Way. Instead of a chaotic, ...

Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, ...

Astronomers have created a new colorized radio view of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and ...

Researchers may have identified what could be a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has ...

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 ...

Florida is home to three listed "dark sky" locations that may offer the best views of the Milky Way's galactic center. The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than ...