Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

MILKY WAY Midnight Dark Chocolate bars, MILKY WAY Cookie Dough bars and MILKY WAY ice cream bars. "A century of MILKY WAY is a historic milestone and one we're proud to celebrate at Mars," said ...

In mid-August the Milky Way is visible at 10 p.m. from mid-northern latitudes, and is acting overhead by midnight to coincide with true darkness. It’s the perfect time to see it. Wait until it ...

This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing astronomers a fleeting glimpse of a mysterious class of stellar duo.

From the violent births of newborn stars to the hidden mysteries of the galactic core, these new images show the Milky Way as you've never seen it before. After 13 years of observations ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is "warped and twisted" and not flat as previously thought, new research shows. Analysis of the brightest stars in the ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new ... [+] dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such ...