The center of the Milky Way, which is referred to as "the core," is best visible beginning in June across the Northern ...

The temperature difference is not subtle. One side of the Milky Way’s outer halo runs noticeably hotter than the other, a ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing ...

Astronomers working with data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope have identified 87 stellar stream ...

Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation ...

You've almost certainly seen photos of the Milky Way, usually taken by photographers who travel way out into the middle of nowhere to get them. They're cosmically beautiful, colorful and timeless. Now ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Pristine star reveals the dawn ...

The gaseous halo in our galaxy has a mass of 100 billion solar masses, which implies that it has more matter than in the ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger ...

Our Milky Way's halo of hot gas is warmer to the "south" than the "north" because of an internal combustion engine-like ...