The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth. NGC 2264 is a vast region of space where new stars are actively ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it reaches interstellar space, never to return, said Paul Chodas, director of NASA ...

A photograph taken from the Wilayat of Ibra shows the Milky Way’s spiral arm with Comet Tsuchinshan at a distance of 70 ...

An interstellar comet believed to be billions of years older than the Sun passed its closest point to Earth on Friday, giving ...

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations ...

Happy New Year! While we’ve had a lot of cloudy nights lately, it’s been warm for the beginning of winter. Luckily, there are ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...