Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright center is visible, is underway. The best viewing time in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way can be seen without special ...

Scientists discovered the Milky Way lies within a vast flat dark-matter sheet spanning about 32 million light-years.

A team of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Groningen has identified a colossal sheet of dark matter and ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

This time of the year is known as "Milky Way season," and Nevadans should be able to see the collection of stars without any special equipment, especially in darker areas away from city lights.

California stargazers can see the Milky Way without special equipment. Learn when and where to spot our galaxy's bright center.

Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned recycled materials into a backyard radio telescope capable of detecting the ...

The Milky Way’s centre looks nothing like the calm band of starlight you see from a dark hillside. In a new, ultra-wide radio mosaic, the region turns into a tangle of cold, threadlike gas structures.

An international team of astronomers has employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to investigate molecular gas in a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1387. Results of the ...

Supercomputer simulations identify stellar rotation as the mechanism driving chemical mixing in red giants, explaining long-observed surface composition changes during stellar evolution.

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, ...