From this vantage point looking at the Milky Way from its edge, the galactic bulge might appear as a glowing orb of stars, ...

Astronomers have identified a group of ancient stars that may be the remnants of a dwarf galaxy named Loki that merged with ...

The May 16 new moon will create ideal dark sky conditions for viewing the Milky Way’s glowing core. Stargazers can expect the ...

Milky Way photography goes beyond capturing the stars. It becomes a way to explore remote environments, challenge physical ...

New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Milky Way could be coming to a sky near you. The billions of stars comprising our home galaxy should appear especially vibrant ...

The best chance for seeing the Milky Way this month will come around Memorial Day weekend in Illinois, according to experts -- and there are a few locations you might want to try viewing from. Milky ...

The composite image reveals several bright Lyrid meteors, one of the oldest recorded meteor showers, racing alongside the ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

To find the end of the Milky Way, scientists looked to the outermost star-formation site, roughly 40,000 light-years from the ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes place within a region that extends to a radius of 40,000 light-years from the ...