Every year, the Capture the Atlas Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest brings together some of the most striking night ...

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the ...

With the bright moon out of our evening sky this week, it's a great time to get away from city lights and explore the beautiful summer Milky Way. But 35 years ago today, even New Yorkers got a glimpse ...

Astronomers may have finally put a number on one of our galaxy’s slipperiest questions: where the Milky Way’s physical boundary really ends.

Astronomers have discovered the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, revealing that most new stars form within 40,000 ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a ...

The galaxy’s most common stars rarely host sub-Neptune planets, revealing a new pattern in how close-in worlds form.

A USC-led research team has created a series of supercomputer-simulated twins of our Milky Way galaxy—which could help scientists unlock new answers about one of the biggest mysteries in the universe: ...

According to the standard story of the Milky Way, these stars should be swarming throughout the halo, the first part of the galaxy to form. By contrast, stars in the disk—which was thought to have ...