It would explain why the Milky Way has so few red giants.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

By contrast, the oldest known stars in the Milky Way are a whopping 10 to 13 billion years old. Colored dots represent older (red) and younger (blue) stars in the Milky Way belonging to three ...

June’s full moon, nicknamed the strawberry moon, will shine brightly on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The moon will be ...

The differently colored blobs represent different basins of attraction (light yellow is the Shapley Concentration, blue is Laniākea and red is the Sloan Great Wall). The Milky Way is located at ...

Astronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new ...

"Core season" for the Milky Way has arrived, with our galaxy visible all night as a band of light arching across the sky.

Occasionally a display of electric-blue noctilucent clouds will decorate ... But hang on… isn’t summer “Milky Way season?” Don’t all the books and magazines say that?

A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a ...

Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological masterpiece” of Coyote Buttes, Utah to the sandstone terrain of desolate Ennedi, ...