Where exactly are we in the Milky Way? This video maps our true cosmic address with Gaia data—central bar, spiral arms, dark-matter halo, and the Orion Arm where the Solar System lives—and explains ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing — the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing—the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have ...

Responding to the question "How do we take pictures of the Milky Way if we are in it?", science communicator and former NASA ...

That’s because at nightfall we’re aimed toward the most concentrated part of our galaxy. During the first few hours of darkness, from 8 to 10 p.m., the Milky Way neatly splits the sky from north to ...