Secrets of the Milky Way - Within the Milky Way you’ll find scattered dark regions that puzzled eighteenth-century astronomer ...

Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.

Gaia mapped billions of stars and revealed hidden connections in the Milky Way, reshaping how we understand our galaxy.

Normally, the overwhelming glare of a full Moon makes observing subtle features of the night sky nearly impossible. But with its light dramatically reduced, stargazers saw conditions resembling those ...

New simulations challenge a long-held belief, indicating that in galaxies similar to the Milky Way stars such as our Sun can migrate great distances.

A video depicting the motions of the Sun around our Milky Way evokes a much-needed sense of order and grace in these troubled times.

Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar ...

In a groundbreaking achievement for astronomy, researchers have identified protostellar jets in the outer regions of the Milky Way, revealing new insights into star formation processes. This ...

In a remarkable advancement for the field of astrophysics, astronomers have detected protostellar jets in the remote outer regions of the Milky Way. This groundbreaking finding, published in The ...

When is the best time to see the Milky Way in Texas? Here's a list of the best times and places to see our galaxy.

What’s more, if our sun has moved far from where it was formed more than 4 billion years ago, that could change the entire notion that there are parts of galaxies – so-called habitable zones ...