For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the stars and our celestial home, the Milky Way galaxy. Cultures all around the world have stories ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

In September, the sky gets dark significantly earlier, allowing us to observe the night sky without having to stay up too ...

Have you ever seen a big band of stars that stretches across the night sky? That is the Milky Way, our home galaxy, and you can see it best on dark, clear nights in the summer. It contains ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are ...

Now, the powerful space telescope has pushed it to the edge closer to home in our very own galaxy, the Milky Way. A team of ...

A visualization of our Milky Way galaxy, seen edge-on ... we would see up to one million times more stars in the night sky. There, the crowding of stars is so dense that the typical spiral ...

The next two largest are the Triangulum galaxy (M33), which is about 2.7 million light-years from the Milky Way (and only 700,000 light-years from Andromeda; they lie close together in the night ...

THE Milky Way may have already commenced its ill-fated collision with a neighboring galaxy – and scientists predict this ...