A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

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 ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth. Reading time 2 minutes An astronaut recently captured an image of Earth from the ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

The Milky Way is really something to see — but not this month, when it’s at the level of the horizon before midnight. (The Columbian files) Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Around 3.5 million years ago, a gigantic energy flare punched out from the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The radiation it released erupted in two energized cones that were so powerful, the ...

While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars comprising our galaxy. Two locations in ...